To find the Content of a Cask in Ale or Wine Gallons.
The Rule.
To the doubled Square of the Boung Diameter add the Square of the Head Diameter, and that Sum
The practical gauger, being a plain and easie method of gauging all sorts of brewing vessels whereunto is added, a short synopsis of the laws of excise / by John Mayne.
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- The practical gauger, being a plain and easie method of gauging all sorts of brewing vessels whereunto is added, a short synopsis of the laws of excise / by John Mayne.
- Author
- Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by W.G. for N. Brooke,
- 1676.
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- Gaging.
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"The practical gauger, being a plain and easie method of gauging all sorts of brewing vessels whereunto is added, a short synopsis of the laws of excise / by John Mayne." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50424.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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multiply by the Casks Length, the last Product divide by 1077, and the Quote is the Ale Gallons, or by 882 quotes the Wine Gallons contained in that Cask.
Example.
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〈 math 〉〈 math 〉 The Content of this Cask is 73 Ale Gallons, 2 Pints, and almost an half.
Or, by the Table of Area's, thus:
To twice the Area of the Boung Circle in Gallons and parts add the
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Area of the Head Circle, the Sum of these multiply tby ⅓ of the Casks Length, and the Product is the Con∣tent in Gallons and parts, as in the former Example.
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Which Fraction being reduced is 2 Pints and better, as was before found.