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Kostlivtzov to Note of the Translator.— The number of English square feet contained in each Russian “dessiateena” is not 16,800, as it is erroneously stated in Mr. Kostlivtzov’s memorandum, but seven times larger, viz: 117,600 square feet. The error of the memorandum consists in taking seven English feet as equivalent to one Russian square “sajenn,” whereas seven feet are equivalent to one lineal “sajenn,” and, therefore, one square sajenn contains seven by seven English feet; so that the number of square “sajenns” in one “dessiateena,” which is 2,400, must be multiplied by 49, and not by 7, as it is done in the memorandum, October 8, 1867

From Kostlivtzov
To Note of the Translator.— The number of English square feet contained in each Russian “dessiateena” is not 16,800, as it is erroneously stated in Mr. Kostlivtzov’s memorandum, but seven times larger, viz: 117,600 square feet. The error of the memorandum consists in taking seven English feet as equivalent to one Russian square “sajenn,” whereas seven feet are equivalent to one lineal “sajenn,” and, therefore, one square sajenn contains seven by seven English feet; so that the number of square “sajenns” in one “dessiateena,” which is 2,400, must be multiplied by 49, and not by 7, as it is done in the memorandum
October 8, 1867

Translation of the Russian memorandum marked AA. BY S. N. BUYNITZKY. Explanatory memorandum in answer to the communication of the ministry of foreign affairs, department of interior relations, dated August…

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