Of Weights and Measures . IS 
When one French cubic inch weighs 1 grain French, 
or contains 1 gr. of any other substance, 1 English cu- 
bic inch of the same weighs or contains .67839 Eng. 
grain. 
For measures of capacity the old French was (as in 
this country) different for dry measure and for liquids. 
The common integer for moderate quantities of liquids 
was the Pinte , which is a little more than a quart Eng- 
lish wine measure. The Chojpine is half the Pinte, and 
the Poison is a quarter of the Chojpine . For larger 
measures, 8 Pintes make a Septier or Velte , and 36 
Veltes make a Muid de Vin Paris measure, for in the 
provinces both the divisions and their value were differ- 
ent. There appears also to have been, even in Paris, 
precisely the same kind of variation in the estimation of 
the Pinte as obtains in this country with the wine pint. 
The French Pinte appears to have been legally equiva- 
lent to 48 Fr. cubic inches, and then was exactly of 
the Muid, which was 8 cubic feet. But Beau in 6, and 
probably the other apothecaries of Paris (a body of men 
abounding in excellent and eminent chemists) make the 
Pinte equal to 32 French ounces of water at the freez- 
ing point. The respective valuations of the Pinte will 
therefore be as follows : 
oz. lbs. Troy Fn. cub. in. Fr. cub. in. Fn. wine jit. 
The pinte of 32 ZZ 2.62536 ZZ 59.888 ZZ 49.52 ZZ 2.07404 
cub. in. Fng. cub. in. 
The pinte of 48 ZZ 58.0489 ZZ 2.01035 
difference .06369 ZZ 
to about 7 drams, 40 grs. Troy of water. 
The difference of nearly an ounce in a quart is suffi- 
ciently great to be often felt in the comparison of expe- 
riments. The Pinte of 48 Fr. cubic inches appears for 
another reason to be the legal standard, since it is thus 
