144 inches 1 foot 9 feet 1 yard 30¾ yards 1 pole 40 poles 1 rood 4 roods 1 acre 640 acres 1 mile This includes length and breadth.

"Dey were a heap o' talk 'bout de Yankees a-givin' ever' Nigger forty acres an' a mule.

Imagine a buildin' coverin' nine acres full of such interestin' sights, and thirteen acres out-doors.

'I'm goin' to buy him a thousand acres o' land, an' one o' these days

He give her an my papa twenty acres their lifetime.

Her father had two hundred acres an' money out at interest, an' only three children.

He pauses at the moderate and middle way which would make the tenant of three or four hundred acres the owner of the soil.

" "I meant my own native land, not the miserable acres my slaves plant to feed and clothe me.

Taking four of the most thickly populated of the London districts (East London, Strand, Old Street, St. Luke's, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and St. George, Bloomsbury), we find on a total area of 792 acres a population of 197,285, or an average of 249 persons per acre.

The increase of lands sold over the previous year is about 6,000,000 acres, and the sales during the first two quarters of the current year present the extraordinary result of five and a half millions sold, exceeding by nearly 4,000,000 acres the sales of the corresponding quarters of the last year.

McDougal & Sons, Kailua .... 176 acres 105 acres H. C. Achi, Holualoa ....

He owned 'bout a thousand an' five hund'ed acres o' lan' an' roun' a hund'ed slaves.

SEL, m., substance dure, sèche, soluble, et d'un goût acre, employée comme assaisonnement.