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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Excerpt: ... buys, which I shall with much pleasure be able to correct. After we had been a good while in the wood, we rode to Illford, and there, while dinner was getting ready, he and I practised measuring of the tables and other things till I did understand measuring of timber and board very well. So to dinner and by and by, being sent for, comes Mr. Cooper, our officer in the Forest, and did give me an account of things there, and how the country is backward to come in with their carts. By and by comes one Mr. Marshall, of whom the King has many carriages for his timber, and they staid and drank with me, and while I am here, Sir W. difference be great, the error is very obnoxious either to buyer or seller. I will instance in one example: -- Let a piece of timber be 2 foot 24 parts broad, and 1 foot 30 parts deep, and 26 foot long: how many foot are contained therein? First for the true way -- I. As I is to 2 24 parts, the breadth, so is 1-30 parts, the depth, to 3-92 parts, the content at the end. 2. As 1 is to 2*92, so is 26, the length, to 56TJ7, the content, which is 56 foot and about an inch. Now for the customary false way -- The breadth of the piece is 2-24 The depth thereof is ..... 1*30 And this 1*77 parts they take for the true square, which is egregiously false; for now come to the line of numbers, and say -- I. As I is to I77 parts, so is 1*77 parts to 313 parts. 2. As I is to 3''I3 parts, so is 26, the length, to 8145 parts, that is to 81 foot and almost half a foot, whereas, by the true way, it contains but 56 foot and ''07 parts. The difference in this piece being 25 foot and above one-third part of a foot, which is above half a load of timber, and timber being at 50J. or PS3 per load, here is 25s. or 3CM. lost by the buyer, and gained by the seller; a considerable fa... Samuel Pepys, Books, Biography and Memoir, The Diary Of Samuel Pepys (volume 4) Books>Biography and Memoir <

2012, ISBN: 9781234915803

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]

2012, ISBN: 9781234915803

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]