WEIGHT. 



Table XII. — continued. 



Smyrna 



Spain - - 

 Stade - - 

 Stettin - - 

 Stockholm 

 Stralfund - 

 Strafburg - 



Sumatra 

 Surat - - 

 Surinam 

 Sweden 



Tangiers 



Teneriffe 



Tetuan 



Toulon 



Triefte 



Okes - - - - 

 Rottoli . . - - 

 Caftillian weight lb. 

 Pounds - - - - 

 (.See Berlin. ) 

 (See Sweden.) 

 Pounds - - - - 

 Pounds - - - - 

 Or, like France. 

 Catties . - - - 

 Seers . . - - 

 ( See ^mjierdam. ) 

 Viftualie weight 1 

 Pounds - - - J 

 Miner's weight 1 

 Marks - - - j 

 Landftatt weight! 

 Marks - - - j 

 Stapelftatt weight 1 

 Marks ... J 

 Pounds .... 

 Pounds .... 

 Rottoli .... 

 ( See Marfeilles. ) 

 ( See Venice and 

 Vienna. ] 



Weight of 



100 lljs. 



Avoirdupois. 



Weight of 

 a fingle lb. 

 .Mark, Sic 



36.51 

 81.13 



98.40 



95.46 



93-83 



9'5-34 



35-56 

 107.14 



106.67 

 120.68 

 126.70 



133-33 



94.27 

 98.77 

 63.96 



E. Grains 

 I9172 

 8628 

 7II4 



7333 



7460 

 7266 



196S3 

 6533 



6562 



5800 



5250 



7425 



7087 



10944 



Tripoli (in Syria) Okes 

 Tripoli ( in Africa) Rottoli 

 Tunis ... ^'" 

 Turin ... 

 Ulm - - . 

 Valencia - - 



Venice ... 



Verona ... 



Vicenza . - 



Vienna . - 

 Warfaw - • 



Weight of 



100 lbs. 

 .\voirdupois. 



Weight of 

 a lingie lb 

 Mdrk, SiC 



Wifmar 

 Wurtzburg 



Yvica - . 



Zant . . 



Zell . - 

 Ziriczee 



Zurich . - 



Zwoll - - 



Ditto 



Pounds .... 

 Pounds .... 

 Heavy pounds 

 Light pounds - - 

 Pefo Groflb pounds 

 Pefo Sottile pounds 

 Pefo Grwflb pounds 

 Pefo So; tile pounds 

 Pefo Groflb pounds 

 Pefo Sottile pounds 

 Pounds .... 

 Old weight pounds 

 New Polifh wt. 1 

 Pounds - - - J 

 Pounds - . - . 

 Pounds . . . - 

 Pounds .... 

 ( See Venice. ) 

 ( See Hanover. ) 

 Pounds . . . - 

 Heavy pounds 

 Light pounds 

 Pounds .... 



37-45 

 89.28 

 90.09 



122.93 

 96.77 

 84.72 



127.08 



94-74 

 150 

 91.19 



136.35 

 92.75 



133-33 

 81 



120 



112.25 



9376 

 95.08 



97-97 



103.94 

 86.03 

 96.78 

 94.10 



I'.. Grains 



1 869 1 

 7840 

 7770 

 5694 



7234 

 8262 

 5508 



7389 

 4667 

 7676 

 5134 

 7547 

 5250 

 8638 

 5832 

 6236 



7466 

 7362 

 7145 



6735 

 8136 



7233 

 7439 



Plan for the Revifion of foreign Weights, iffc. — The 

 commercial world will learn with fatisfaftion that a plan has 

 lately been commenced, under the aufpices of the Britifli 

 government, for revifing the tables of comparifon between 

 foreign weights and meafures ; as it is well known that many 

 of the tables in ufe abound in contradiftory ilatements ; and 

 even where they agree, they are frequently found to differ 

 from mercantile experience. 



The origin of thofe tables of comparifon cannot be traced. 

 It is probable that they have been gradually formed 

 through a long courfe of ages, from the cafual reports of 

 individuals in different countries. When, therefore, it is 

 confidered, how uncertain fuch reports mull have been, and 

 alfo to what changes weights and meafures are expofed from 

 decay, accident, or defign, it is not furprifing that fo much 

 confufion fhould be experienced, efpecially in tables where 

 no general revifion has ever taken place. 



The only comparifon of the kind upon record is that 

 made in 1 767, by M. Tillet, at the Paris Mint, by order of the 

 French government. His operations, however, were con- 

 fined to money weights, and thefe only of a limited number 

 of places. His tables, as far as they extend, have been 

 generaUy ufed, although their accuracy is, in many in- 

 itances, difputed, efpecially by Krufe, and other German 

 writers. Nelkenbrecker, in his elaborate work on monies, 

 weights, and meafures, publifhed at Berlin in 18 10, gives a 

 long ftatemeut (page 508.) of difcrepances between Tillet's 

 reports and thofe of other affay maflers. 

 3 



But the mofl numerous and important errors are 

 in the tables of commercial weights and meafures ; and 

 therefore with a view of remedying an evil fo perplex- 

 ing to merchants, our government has recently iffued 

 an order to the Britifh confuls abroad, to fend home 

 well-attefted copies of foreign ftandard weights, that 

 they may be accurately compared with thofe of Eng- 

 land at his majefty's mint. Correft ftatements are likewife 

 required of the mathematical dimenfions of meafures of ca- 

 pacity, and of their comparative contents, as eflimated and 

 afted upon by merchants. 



We have authority further to ftate, that the plan was 

 examined and approved by the Board of Trade, on the 

 14th of January 1818 ; and, by their lordfhips' recommend- 

 ation, the order to the confuls has been iffued from the 

 foreign-office, by Vifcount Caftlereagh. 



The copies of ftandards thus tranfmitted to London are 

 to be weighed and compared by Robert Bingley, efq. 

 F.R.S., the king's affay-maller of the Mint; and the re- 

 fults of thofe important comparifons arc to be pubhfhed by 

 Dr. Kelly, who projefted the plan, and who will perform the 

 calculations. The revifed tables are expedted to be brought 

 out in the fecond edition of his Cambift; and fhould 

 they be printed before our Cyclopsdia is finifhed, we 

 hope for the author's pernuilJon to infert them in our 

 jiddenda. 



Weights 



