  In this paper we study O(2000) (quenched) lattice configurations from the APE
collaboration, for different lattice volumes and for 6.0 \le beta \le 6.4 using
both the Wilson and the SW-Clover fermion actions. We determine the light
hadronic spectrum and meson decay constants and study the mesonic dispersion
relation. We extract the hadronic variable J and the strange quark mass in the
continuum at the next-to-leading order obtaining m_s^{MSbar}(mu=2 GeV) = 122
+/- 20 MeV. A study is made of their dependence on lattice spacing. We
implement a newly developed technique to extract the inverse lattice spacing
using data at the simulated values of the quark mass (i.e. at masses around the
strange quark mass).
