joo Ntw SfJ!(nt of Weights and MtafurtJ ofFranct, 



PxOPO/irTOX Iffivern the JxciENT FRENCH MEASURES and the NeIT. 



The a iLiiKL- from .he Pole to the Equator being |^^ 3079 JjHc feet"" 



Value of the metre in " 



Paris ells 

 Value of the metre in • 



feet 

 Value pf the fquare ' 



metre i'l fquare feet . 

 Value of the are in poles 



or perches of 1 8 feet 



fquarc . . - 

 Valueof the cubic metre •» 



in cubic feet - -/ 

 Value of thelitrc in Paris ■> 



pints - - -J 

 Value of the decalitre \ 



in parifh bufhels J 

 Value of the gramme in 1 



grains, poids de viarc S 

 Valucofthedecagramme v 



in ounces - - J 

 Value of the kilogramme-i 



ill pounds, poids de V 



marc - - -J 



I in I 



Value of the Paris cU 



metres 

 Value of the foot in 1 



metres - - - J 1 

 Value of the fquare foot -i ' 



in fquare metres j 



Value of the pole or^ ' 



perch of eighteen feet > 



fquare in arcs - rJ 

 Value of the cube foot \ 



in cube metres -/ 



Value of the Paris pint "i 



in litres - -/ 



Value of theParisbulhel \ 



\n decalitres - - J 

 Value of the grain, /kjiA \ 



de marc, in grammes/ 

 Value of the ounce in i 



decagrammes - -/ 

 Value of the pound,-k 



poids de marc, in kilo- > 



grammes - -J 



II. 



AnaMis of a AL-moir of Citizen BONHOMME on the Nature and Treatment of Rachitis, or the 



Rickets. 

 fConcluJed from page 177.] 



X HE following are the experiments by which Citizen Bonhomme appears to have fuc- 

 cecded in proving this truth. I fhall tranfcribe his own words. 



" I caufed feveral young fowls of the fame incubation to be fed in different manners. 

 Some received the ufual food without any mixture; others received daily a certain quantity of 

 calcareous phofphate mixed in the fame pafte as formed the fupport of the others; and laftly, 

 one of them was fed with variations in the ufe of the mixture: the calcareous phofphate vas 

 fometimes given and fometimes fufpended. When thefe fowls, after two months, had 

 acquired their ordinary growth, I examined and carefully compared the ftate of their bones. 

 The progrefs of the ofTification in the epiphyfes was various according to the nature of the 

 food the animal had received. The bones of the laft fowl, which hid received the phof- 

 phate only from time to time, were rather more advanced than the bones of thofe which had 

 6 been 



