Directory_and_Chronicle_1841 — Page 670

1841.

Diary and Journal of Parsees.

5 R cheih make 1✈ pov:

24 poo make 1 1⁄2 fun;

60步 poo make 1

4 19 keò or 240

keŏ;

角

步 poo make I 畝

mow.

12.587 X 562.935 inches 5.244 ft, or 1 poo.

5.244 X 5.244 = 27.499636 square feet, or I square poo.

27.499536-9 = 3.0555 sqr. yd. X 240

mow; which is 6.6 mow to one English acre.

653

733.32 sqr. yd. to 1

"

ART. III. Diary and Journal, during tours to England and re- sidence in that country, of one year by Ardaseer Cursetjee'; and of two years and half by Jehanjcer Nowrojee and Hirjee- bhoy Merwanjee, all of Bombay.

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THIS, it is said, 'is an age of bronze.' Is it so? Is society so harden- ed that no impression can be made upon it? Are the nations so pe- trified that they are like dead metal, spiritless, unmovable, inactive? Is an apathy like that which covered the world in the darkest times of the Middle Ages, again coming over the whole wide world? Threescore and ten years ago, what was the state of the British em- pire compared with what it now is? What, at that time, was the condition of the British colonies in North America compared with what the United States now are? On the continent of Europe, in India, in New Holland, and on some of the islands of the sea, what has been the progress of affairs? Has there not been one uninter- rupted series of changes, old foundations broken up and new ones laid, old and venerated systems demolished and new ones formed? In arts, in sciences, in morals, in religion, in government, and in almost everything, has there not been an aspiring activity, such as seldom if ever before existed? And does not this activity still con- tinue and increase, so as to baffle conjecture respecting its future achievements? Where, for example, will terminate the inventions resulting from the wonder-working power of steam? Look at the be- nevolent institutions of this age: when were voluntary associations either so numerous or so extensive in their operations as they are