Note 1043 — Chapter XXXIX · FISH WITH AND WITHOUT SCALES—METHODS OF FISHING—VIVARIA
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Zuckermann, a leading Jewish authority, in Das jüdische Maassystem, p. 31, gives, it is true, the following equivalents: 1 Parasang = 4 Mil. (Lat. mille = 30 Ris) (stadia)—8000 Hebrew cubits. Reckoning the cubit at, in round figures, 18 inches, we get a parasang of 4000 yards, or about 2¼ miles. Later authorities, however, are agreed that the Persian parasang was at least 3½ miles, or more.