FARMERS' REGISTER- FRENCH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 



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Paris pints. 

 10737.47 = 3 muids 26 veltes 1 pint f 

 1073.747 = 37 rnuids 10 veltes 1 pint^ 

 107.3747 = 13 veltes 3 pints I 

 10.73747 == 1 pint and ^V 

 1.073747 = 1 velte 2 pints ^^^^ 



0.1073747 = i litron 

 0.0107374 



Solid, or Cubic Measures. 



The unit of the French measures of solidity is the Stere, which is equal to a cuTdIc metre, and ix 

 therefore the same as the kilometre in aprecedmg table. It is used for timber and tor fire wood. 



After the pi-eceding system had been established and enforced for 16 years, it was found to be preg- 

 nant with such evils and inconveniences, that the imperial government considered it necessary to yield 

 to the wishes of the people, and to establish a modified system, more conformable to their ancient 

 habits. It was therefore decreed on the 28th of March, 1812, that the ancient and respected names 

 of the toise, thee// or aune, the foot, the inch, and the bushel, should be tolerated, but, with the \T.ew 

 of preserving the metrical system, that they should represent new measures related to the metrical 

 system in the following manner. 



Metres. 



= n 



= j of a Hectolitre. 



The decimal division of these tolerated measures was likewise abandoned, and the duodecimal one 

 enjoined, on the express ground, "that the decimal division, though favorable for calculations, is not 

 equally so lor the daily operations of the people, and is not easily comprehended." The French 

 have therefore two systems of measures, the one for philosophers and politicans, and the other for the 



