16 
Of Weights and Measures . 
Are is adopted, which is a decametre squared, A Hec- 
tare, or 100 Ares, are about equivalent to 2 English 
acres. 
For the integer of the measure of capacity, both wet 
and dry, the decimetre cubed is employed, and is called 
the Litre. It is more than a third larger than the old 
French Litron, and is equal to Sg English wine pints. 
The cubic metre is also called a St ere, but is only 
used for measuring fire wood, to be substituted for the 
old French Corde de Lois. 
For the integer of the measure of weight, the weight 
of a cubic centimetre of distilled water at 32° has been 
adopted. This is called a Gramme, and is equivalent 
to about id l English grains. 
Of these measures the Metre , Litre , and Gramme , 
are almost the only integers that the chemical reader will 
ever meet with, and certainly their uniformity and exact 
ratio to each other, and decimal progression, render the 
comparison of them with our own measures extremely 
easy. 
The following are the correspondences between these 
and English measures. 
The Metre ZZ 39.371 English inches. 
The square Metre m 1550.075641 English square inches. 
The square Decimetre ZZ 15.50075 English square inches. 
cube feet cube in . 
The Cubic Metre ” 61028.028 Eng. cubic inches ZZ 35 : 548.028 
The Cubic Decimetre thp same as the Litre. 
English cubic inches 
The Litre, equal to the bulk of Kilogramme of water zz 61.028 
Troy grains 
The Gramme, or weight of a cubic centimetre of water zz 15.44402 
