Post by whotrollsnigh on Oct 28, 2019 11:42:08 GMT -5
A post on Richard E. Saunier's blog (link) under the name Forrwst Fenn:
"Since Richard mentioned the olden days lets harken to 1620 when universal land measures first became law in England and America. As you rode your horse into town you had to pass 80 telephone poles in order to reach a mile because they were 1 chain apart, or 66 feet. And each chain had 100 links, if
you wanted to break it down further. Road rights-of-way also were 1 chain wide.
And 80 square chains made a square mile, or 640 acres – and that was 1 section of land.
But if you’d rather count fence posts you had to pass 320 in order to reach a mile because they were a rod apart, or 16.5 feet. And since everyone knew that an acre was 10 square chains (43,560 square feet) it was easy to tell how many acres were in your neighbor’s farm.
Some aspects of those measures are still in use today in the horse racing business because a furlong is 10 chains in length, or 660 feet. You should feel smarter now because that’s so easy.
If you want to apply those important figures into the thrill of the chase I will give you an additional clue. The Treasure chest full of gold and precious jewels is more than 66,000 links north of Santa Fe."
Stopping mid-sentence after "And each chain had 100 links, if" Forrest hit <enter> and finished the statement on the following line. He then hit <enter> again after "Road rights-of-way also were 1 chain wide." Doing so created the paragraph acrostic: I say BS.
"Since Richard mentioned the olden days lets harken to 1620 when universal land measures first became law in England and America. As you rode your horse into town you had to pass 80 telephone poles in order to reach a mile because they were 1 chain apart, or 66 feet. And each chain had 100 links, if
you wanted to break it down further. Road rights-of-way also were 1 chain wide.
And 80 square chains made a square mile, or 640 acres – and that was 1 section of land.
But if you’d rather count fence posts you had to pass 320 in order to reach a mile because they were a rod apart, or 16.5 feet. And since everyone knew that an acre was 10 square chains (43,560 square feet) it was easy to tell how many acres were in your neighbor’s farm.
Some aspects of those measures are still in use today in the horse racing business because a furlong is 10 chains in length, or 660 feet. You should feel smarter now because that’s so easy.
If you want to apply those important figures into the thrill of the chase I will give you an additional clue. The Treasure chest full of gold and precious jewels is more than 66,000 links north of Santa Fe."
Stopping mid-sentence after "And each chain had 100 links, if" Forrest hit <enter> and finished the statement on the following line. He then hit <enter> again after "Road rights-of-way also were 1 chain wide." Doing so created the paragraph acrostic: I say BS.
