Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Acre

ACRE.—The English statute acre comprises 160 square poles, each of which contains 16 1/2 feet. The same measure of land, in Scotland, is regulated by the Scotch ell, which is 372-10ths English inches: thus, 36 square ells make 1 fall; 40 falls, 1 rood; and 4 roods constitute an acre; so that the proportion of a Scotch to an English acre is nearly as that of 5 to 4.—The acre, employed in the Principality of Wales, is equivalent to 2 English ones; and the Irish acre is equal to 1 acre, 2 roods, and 19 perches 27-121 of English statute measurement.