How Many Miles to Babylon? How Many Miles to Babylon? "How Many Miles to Babylon" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8148. The accepted modern lyrics are: <poem>How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again.. If your heels are nimble and your toes are light, You may get there by candle-light.</poem> A longer Scottish version has the lyrics: <poem>King and Queen of Cantelon, How many miles to Babylon? Eight and eight, and other eight. Will I get there by candle-light? If your horse be
Dry gallon measure of approximately the same size, though the dry gallon is a bit bigger. 1 dry gallon ≈ 1.163 647 fluid gallons Its implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches in diameter and 8 inches in depth. That made the dry gallon a non-terminating number of cubic inches, an irrational number whose value with the first six digits after the decimal point was 268.802521 ( cubic inches ≈ ). The bushel was later defined to be exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, making the dry gallon exactly