A chilliometre; M. 0; F. 4; Y. 213; Ft. 1; In. 10.2; […] 8 chiliometres are nearly 5 miles.

It is the attempt also of the Arabian and European mathematicians; and is now said to be reduced to precision by the French calculators, in order to form a natural basis for all measures. But how their metres, myriametres, and chiliometres, will be adopted by the people is still a matter of experiment.

The springs which supply these salt-works are about a chiliometre (rather more than half a mile) from the town of Moutiers, in the centre of Salins, a small village near the junction of the two rivers Doron, in a valley of the same name.

It appears also from Coulomb’s experiments, that a man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes (a chiliogramme is equal to three ounces five drams avoirdupois) to the height of a chiliometre (a chiliometre is equal to 39571 English inches);

Each of these 40 chiliometres has cost 1,000,000 francs, or £40,000, making the total cost of the railway independent of the special rolling stock for working it, £1,600,000, or at the rate of £64,000 a mile.

Chiliometre

Meaning

Noun