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Show A Mile The measurement to which we usually refer by this name is what can be more particularly called the statute mile. It equals eight furlongs fur-longs each of 220 yards, or 5,280 feet in alL There is another mile the geographical or nautical. This mile is one-sixteenth of a degree of latitude, or 6,085 feet The word comes to us from the Latin word "mille," meaning a thousand, says London Answers Magazine. The Roman mile was 1,000 paces. They measured a pace as the distance between the points where the same heel came down in making a stride. The Roman pace which we should regard as two paces was reckoned at about five feet This made the Roman mile-5,000 feet-noti.ceably shorter than the mile measurement we use today. |