The Seaman and Merchant's Complete Expeditious Measurer: Containing a Set of Tables, Which Shew, at One View, the Solid Contents of All Kinds of ... Breadths, and Depths (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Seaman and Merchant's Complete Expeditious Measurer: Containing a Set of Tables, Which Shew, at One View, the Solid Contents of All Kinds of Packages and Casks, According to Their Several Lengths, Breadths, and Depths

The Tables are Forty-three 'in number; and they increase progressively in the numbers, which represent the depth of the Packages, from six inches up to four feet.

Each Table occupies four pages: the first column of every page is denominated Length; and the Breadths are at the top over their respective columns, increasing progressively by inches. At the head Of each Table, and also on the cut mar gin of the second page, is the Depth which denominates' that Table. III the third and fourth pages of every Table, the Breadths are increased, on an average, one foot five inches; and the Lengths one foot four inches. The Tables are num bered at the bottom of the pages.

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