A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

Note 29 — PART V HISTORICAL NOTES ON ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL SIEGE ENGINES AND THEIR EFFECTS IN WARFARE

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57¾ lbs. (avoirdupois).

30 Two stades would be 404 yards; the measure of a stade is 606¾ English feet.

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