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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 358 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FURLONG (from the 0. Eng. furlang, i.e. " furrow-
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long ")  , a measure of length, originally the length of a furrow in the "
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common
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field "
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system . As the field in this system was generally taken to be a square, 10 acres in extent, and as the
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acre varied in different districts and at different times, the "
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furlong " also varied . The
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side of a square containing 10
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statute acres is 220 yds. or 40 poles, which was the usually accepted length of the furlong . This is also the length of 8th of the statute mile . " Furlong " was as
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early as the 9th
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century used to translate the Latin
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stadium, 8th of the
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Roman mile .

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