Furlong the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and
Eustace L. Furlong and moved to Eugene, Oregon. That same year he was hit by a car. Furlong survived but suffered health complications related to the accident for the rest of his life. Despite retirement and the accident, Furlong continued to contribute to vertebrate paleontology. He died in 1950. The plesiosaur "Aphrosaurus furlongi" was named after Furlong by Samuel Welles. Eustace L. Furlong Eustace L. Furlong was a paleontologist and fossil preparator noted for his work on ancient mammals and the Mesozoic reptiles of California. Furlong was born to a family with deep roots in the California area and spent his childhood in