Note 65 — FIRST PART. The Story of Astronomy from Primitive Times until the Age of Dante. (continued 3)
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The Arabian mile was equal to 4000 “black cubits,” and if this is the Egyptian and Babylonian cubit, the values are rather too large, being in round numbers 26,500 and 8,500 English miles, instead of 25,000 and 8000.