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An Example of the Table of long Measure.
Suppose you were to find out how many Inches were in a Pole long; look under Inches, and against Pole, there is 198; and so many Inches are in a Pole long, and 16 ½ Foot, 5 ½ Yards:
And in the Table of Square Measure, to know how many square Yards is in a Pole, look against Pole, and above Yards there is 30 ¼, the square yards in a Pole.
There be several other sorts of superficial Measures, as Pavings, Plaisterings, Wainscotings and Painting; which are to be measured by the Yard square, and may be measured by some of the Rules before shewed; your readiest way is by the Yard divided into ten parts, so will you odde Measure come into Decimal Fractions, which are as easily cast up as whole Numbers: Or if you measure by the Foot Rule, have it divided into 10 parts, and when you have found the Content in feet, divide it by 9, the Quotient will shew you how many yards; and if any remain, they be feet.
Some sorts of Work are measured by the square of 10 foot the side, so that such a Square is 100 foot; for ten times Ten is a Hundred: By this Measure is your Carpenters Work measured, as Floors, Partiti∣ons, Roofs of Houses; So also is Tiling and Slatting measured; this is very ready to measure and to cast up: for if you multiply the Breadth by the Length, so many hundreds as you find, so many Squares are there; and what remains are parts of a Square.
Board and Glass, &c. are measured by the foot, which may be divi∣ded into ten parts, which will be much easier to count up.
But if you would be more fully satisfied in the Rules of Surveying, see the work of Mr. Leyborn, Mr. Wing, Mr. Rathborn, &c.