Re: More and more weight/mass Units-STONES

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

Oh, I'd say a pole is to a chain, as two bits are to a dollar
:-)

Brian

At 10:22 10/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
> ...ok, now what's a pole?  One of our faculty is an amateur geneologist
> and his ancestors write deeds measuring land claim distances in poles
> in the 1800's in AZ.
>
> Dan M
>
> > > 12 inches = 1 foot
> > > 3 feet = 1 yard
> > > 220 yards = 1 furlong
> > > 8 furlongs = 1 mile.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > sarma.
> >
> > You may add to the table:
> > 22 yards  =  1 chain
> > another nice archaic measure but the chains were probably used to mreasure
> > the "furrow's length of a (ten acre) customary old field size" to which
> > Brian Whatcott drew our attention.  The chain is also the exact length of a
> > cricket pitch.
> > Brian McInnes
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK