The bombardier, and pocket gunner

by Ralph Willett Adye

	Principal Measures, or Unities.
	Length.	Capacity.	Weight.	Agrarian.	For Firewood.
	Metre.	Litre.	Gramme.	Are.	Stere.
(A)	10,000,000th		Weight of a
	part of the	A	centimetre	100	One
	dist. from	part of	cube of	square	cubic
	the Pole to	the cube.	distilled	metres.	metre.
	the Equator.		water.
(B)	3 feet	1 pint and	18 grains	2 square	1 demi voie,
	11 lines	1-20, or a	& 841,000	perches	or ¼ of a
	and ½	litron and	parts.	des eaux	cord des eaux
	nearly.	1-4 nearly.		et toret.	et fore.
(C)		6.083 inch,
	Inches	which is	22,966	11.968
	39.383	more than	grains.	square
		the wine		yards.
		& less
		than the
		beer quart.

Reduction of the old French Weights and
Measures to English; and the contrary.

1st.	To	reduce	English Avoirdupois to Paris weight:
			The avoirdupois pound of 16 ounces,		Paris grains.
			or 7000 troy grains. = 8538
	The	ounce	= 533.6250
2d.	To	reduce	Paris running feet or inches into		1.065977
			English, multiply by
	”	”	English running feet or inches into
			Paris, divide by
3d.	To	reduce	Paris cubic feet or inches into		1.211278
			English, multiply by
	”	”	English cubic feet or inches into
			Paris, divide by
4th.	To	reduce	the Paris pint to the English,		2.0171082
			multiply by
	”	”	the English pint to the Paris,
			divide by
Lavoisier Ch.

German Measures.—The Rhinland rood is the measure commonly used in Germany and Holland, and in most of the northern states, for all military purposes. It is divided into 12 feet. The Rhinland rood is sometimes divided into tenths, or decimal feet, and the pace is made equal to 2 decimal feet, or ²/₁₀ of a rood.

Proportion between the English Weights and Measures,
and those of the principal Places in Europe.

Places.	Foot in Parts.	Pound in Parts.
London	1000	100
Paris	1068	108
Amsterdam	942	93
Rhinland	1033	96
Antwerp	946	98
Lovaine	958	98
Middleburgh	991	98
Strasburgh	920	93
Bremen	964	96
Cologne	954	97
Frankfort	948	93
Leipsig	—	117
Hamburg	—	95
Venice	1153	151
Prague	1026	106
Copenhagen	965	94
Nuremburgh	1006	94
Bavaria	954	—
Vienna	1053	83
Madrid	1001	99
Toledo	899	100
Bologne	1204	127
Naples	861	—
Florence	—	123
Genoa	—	142
Mantua	1569	143
Turin	1062	—
Dantzig	944	119

Measures—for gunpowder.

Diameters and Heights of
Cylindric Powder Measures,
holding from 1 to 15 Ounces.

Ounces	0	1	2	3	4	5
0	0	1.256	1.583	1.811	1.994	2.148
1	2.706	2.793	2.876	2.953	3.027	3.098

Diameters and Weights of
Cylindric Powder Measures,
holding from 1 to 15 Pounds.