Chap. X.

TABLE OF VARIOUS MEASURES.

911

To find the value of painting a square metre, the price of the colour ground, and the

labour of painting :

Francs.

One coat — 0T1 kilogrammes of colour at 2-17 francs - - 0*239

One-twentieth of loss, 2*51 - - 0*012

0*2 hours of a painter at 0*45 francs - 0*090

One-seventh of labour for incidental expenses ... 0*013

One-tenth for profit, 1*03 ------ 0*035

Total - - 0*389

Pitching , applied to new timber or to that already pitched: in the latter case some allow-ance must be made for scraping off.

Hours ofa Man.

Per square metre com- f Clearing off - - - - - 0*01

prising heating the-l Pitching without scaffolding - 0*07

pitch. Pitching with scaffolding - 0*10

Upon a square metre about 0*0003 cube metre of pitch is required for new timber;0 0002 when it has already been pitched.

The incidental expenses may be valued at one-seventh of the labour.

Tables of various Measures in English Feet and Decimals , from Folkes , Paper , Shuckburgh y

Vega , Hutton , Ozama

, Cavalloy Young, §*c.

Ancient Measures.

Augsburg foot

ling. ft.

Eng . ft.

-

-

*972

Arabian foot

_

_

1*095

Austria, see Vienna .

Babylonian foot -

-

-

f 1*144(_ 1 *135

Avignon, see Arles .Barcelona foot

*992

Drusian foot

_

_

1*090

Basel foot

.

-

•944

Egyptian foot

_

.

1*421

Bavarian foot

-

_

*968

stadium-

.

730*8

Bergamo foot

-

-

1*431

r 1*009

Berlin foot

_

.

•992

Greek foot

.

i 1*006

Bern foot

_

-

*962

l 1007

Besan 9 on foot

-

-

1*015

Phyleterian footHebrew foot

•

-

1*167

1*212

Bologna foot

-

-

f 1*2441 1 *250

common cubit

.

-

1*817

Bourg en Bresse foot

_

_

1 030

sacred cubit

_

2*002

Brabant ell in Germany

-

_

2*268

great cubit = G common

Bremen foot

-

-

•955

Macedonian foot -

_

.

1*160

Brescia foot

-

.

1*560

Natural foot

-

-

*814

braccio

.

2*092

Ptolemaic = Greek foot

Breslau foot

-

_

1*125

f *970

Bruges foot

_

.

*749

Roman foot

-

*967

Brussels foot

f *902

L *966

\ *954

before Titus

.

*970

greater ell

-

-

2*278

f *965

lesser ell -

-

_

2*245

after Titus

J *9672

Castilian vara

_

_

2*746

] *9681

Chamberry foot

.

.

1*107

1 *9696

China mathematical foot

.

_

1*127

Roman mile of PlinyStrabo

-

4840*5

4903*

imperial foot

-

r 1*051\ 1*050

Sicilian foot of Archimedes

•730

li -

.

-

*606

Cologne foot

-

-

•903

Modern Measures.

Constantinople foot

-

-

I* 2*195'L 1 *165

Attdorf foot

Eng . ft.

Copenhagen foot (Denmark )

-

1049

-

-

*775

Cracau foot

.

-

1*169

f *927

greater ell

-

-

2*024

Amsterdam foot -

-

•930

lesser ell

_

_

1 *855

[ -931

Dantzig foot

_

.

•923

Amsterdam ell

.

-

2*233

Dauphine foot

-

_

1*119

Ancona foot

-

-

1*282

Delft foot

-

_

•547

Antwerp foot

-

-

*940

Denmark old foot

_

1 *047

Aquileia foot

-

-

1*128

new foot

1*036

Arles foot

-

-

*888

Dijon foot

-

-

1*030