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of furlongs in the Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 8 [[furlong]]s or 5,280 [[Foot (unit) in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes, but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum

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