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Pagina 30
... square ft . , like the Roman and English bay . * It will have been noticed that the building described by Saxo Grammaticus is 240 ft . long , and also that it is divided into 12 bays , each of which is 20 ft . square . Each of these ...
... square ft . , like the Roman and English bay . * It will have been noticed that the building described by Saxo Grammaticus is 240 ft . long , and also that it is divided into 12 bays , each of which is 20 ft . square . Each of these ...
Pagina 31
... square ft . , it would only have been necessary in such cases to take the height . During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there are so many instances , both in literature and unpublished documents , of the estimation or ...
... square ft . , it would only have been necessary in such cases to take the height . During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there are so many instances , both in literature and unpublished documents , of the estimation or ...
Pagina 149
... square ft . , or the twentieth part of that house plus six acres , it follows that the penny corresponds to the twelfth part of such a bay plus half an acre . Though a house could be built in bays of uniform size , and therefore be ...
... square ft . , or the twentieth part of that house plus six acres , it follows that the penny corresponds to the twelfth part of such a bay plus half an acre . Though a house could be built in bays of uniform size , and therefore be ...
Pagina 150
... square ft . , or , as the case may have been , of 400 square ft . , we may reason- ably believe that it is compounded of a Teutonic prefix * penn , or * pann , and a termination -ing , as in shilling or farthing . These divisions of the ...
... square ft . , or , as the case may have been , of 400 square ft . , we may reason- ably believe that it is compounded of a Teutonic prefix * penn , or * pann , and a termination -ing , as in shilling or farthing . These divisions of the ...
Pagina 151
which , as we have seen , a bay of 400 square ft . could be divided . If we adapt bays containing 400 square ft . each to the hide of 120 acres and the various divisions of the hide , we shall get the follow- ing table of acres , bays ...
which , as we have seen , a bay of 400 square ft . could be divided . If we adapt bays containing 400 square ft . each to the hide of 120 acres and the various divisions of the hide , we shall get the follow- ing table of acres , bays ...
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