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Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 3 › Of Scripture Weights, Measures and Coins.Part 3 › Of Scripture Weights, Measures and Coyns.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
AN Hairs Breadth, the 48th part of an Inch. A Hands breadth, three Inches. A Span, nine Inches. A Foot, twelve Inches. A Cubit, a foot and a half. A holy Cubit, a Yard. The Kings Cubit, a foot & 9 Inch. A Reed, six Cubits and a Hands breadth. A Pace, five Foot. A Furlong, 125 Paces. A Mile, 1000 Paces. A Sabbath days Journey, 600 Paces.
AN Hairs Breadth, the 48th part of an Inch. A Hands breadth, three Inches. A Span, nine Inches. A Foot, twelve Inches. A Cubit, a foot and a half. A holy Cubit, a Yard. The Kings Cubit, a foot & 9 Inch. A Reed, six Cubits and a Hands breadth. A Pace, five Foot. A Furlong, 125 Paces. A Mile, 1000 Paces. A Sabbath days Journy, 600 Paces.
Measures of Capacity of things that are Dry. A Kab, Quart. An Omer, 3 Pints & an half▪ A Measure or Seah, a Gallon. An Ephah, half a Bushel and a Pottle. ⟨p. 118⟩Half Omer, or Lethe•, seven bushel and a quart. An Omer, or Cor, 14 bushel and a pottle.
Measures of Liquids. A Log, half a Pint. A Hin, three Quarts. A Bath, 9 gallons & 3 quarts. A Pot or Sextary, a pint & half. A Measure or Choe•ix, • Quart. A Firkin, 4 Gallons & half.