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Excerpt from A New System of Geography, Vol. 1 of 6: In Which Is Given, a General Account of the Situation and Limits, the Manners, History, and Constitution, of the Several Kingdoms and States in the Known World; Containing, Denmark, Norway, Greeland, Sweden, Russia and Poland
Yet this variety, as well as the proportions of fome of thofe cubits to one another, may be partly accounted for from the oriental eufiom of a Royal Gahit, exceeding the mean cubit by three and from the commercial or nundinary meafures being, for the mol't part, lefs than the mean, not only in the Euh, but every where elfe. The former probably had its name from being the meafure, which defpotic Princes exaeted in the confiruetion of their buildings and public works; while a cubit {ome what fhort of the mean was allowed of in private bargains, and when ikilful artif'ts were to be paid for their labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
