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&c. be all of different Capacities ; yet the refpe&ive 
Contents are every one of the fame Weight: A Ton 
in Weight is the common Standard Of all. 
In After-times, through Ignorance of this Analogy, 
a Variety of Weights and Meafures were introduced, 
incommenfurate, and not reducible to any com- 
mon Standard, or analogous Relation: Whereas, had 
the original Analogy been kept up, it would have 
prevented that Diforder and Confufion fo juftly com- 
plained of at prefent concerning the Subjed of 
Weights and Meafures. 
From the foregoing Scheme it is reafonable to fup- 
pofe, that Corn, and feveral other Commodities, 
both dry and liquid, were firft fold by Weight; and 
that Meafures, for Convenience, were afterwards 
introduced, bearing fome Analogy to the Weights 
before made ufe of. 
From the modern Experiment before-mentioned, 
(a cubic root of Water weighing 62 Pound 8 
Ounces) it appears, that the Meafure of a Foot, and 
the Weight of a Pound, are the fame now as were in 
Ufe many Ages before the Conqueft. 
The foregoing Scheme afligns a Reafon, why the 
word Ton is applied both to Weight and liquid 
Meafure; viz. becaufe the fame Quantity of Liquor 
is a Ton both in Weight and Meafure. Probably 4. 
Quarters of Grain had formerly the fame Appellation, 
till the Significancy of it was loft in the Ufe of the 
Avoirdupois Ton. 
The Word Quarter, as applied to Grain, is alfo 
hereby explained. Moft Writers have fuppofed it the 
4th Part of fome Meafure, but what that Meafure 
Ayas could never latisfa&orily be made out. The 
learned 
