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above the falls of Baraconda, to which place it is navigable 

 for canoes from its mouth ; and in fix days more, on the 

 l Oth of June, Mr. Park, to his infinite fatisfaction, having 

 undergone in his journey, from the heat of the weather, 

 from fatigue, and from hunger, more than he could find 

 words to defcribe, entered the hofpitable manfion of Dr. 

 Laidley, from which he had fet out eighteen months before. 

 On the 15th of the fame month he embarked in a (lave 

 fhip bound to America; which being driven by ftrefs of 

 weather to Antigua, Mr. Park took his paflage from thence 

 in a vefiel bound to Great Britain ; and on the 25th of De- 

 cember laft arrived fafely in London. 



IV. Explanation of the French Meafures and Weights, pointing 

 out their Value and principal Ufes, according to the Laiv of 

 Germinal itith, 3d Tear of the Republic. From the Journal 

 de Phyfique, 1798. 



MEASURES OF LENGTH. 



CENTIMETRE. The hundreth part of the metre. 

 This is rather a fubdivilion than a particular meafure *. 



Decimetre. Tenth part of the metre. The double deci- 

 metre makes a very convenient meafure for the pocket. 



Metre. The ftandard of the meafures of the republic 

 being the ten-millionth part of a quarter of the meridian, or 

 the length of about 3 feet ii~t lines; it may ferve for 

 mcafuring cloth, fluffs, &c. It makes about the ordinary- 

 height of a walking-ftick, which any perfon may carry in the 

 hand. The demi-metre and the double metre may be ufeful 

 for different kinds of meafurement. 



Decametre. Ten times the length of the metre. About 

 thirty feet ten inches. Proper to form a chain for land- 

 furveying. 



* The millimetre, or the thoufandth part of the metre, might be here 

 mentioned ; but it is of little lift in commerce. 



R 3 Hetlometre* 



