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chains to the mile, but until the early nineteenth century the Scottish customary mile and Irish customary mile was longer than the statute mile; consequently a Scots chain was about 74 (imperial) feet, an Irish chain 84 feet. These longer chains became obsolete following the adoption of the imperial system of units in 1824. In India, "metric chains" of exactly 20 metres 2

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