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Of Weights and Measures . 
from this method of extending useful knowledge. The 
small sum of seven-pence or eight-pence a week to any 
economical person is trifling, and there is no doubt but 
every inquirer will find something of which he may 
abridge himself, in order to become possessed of such 
an assemblage of facts and opinions. He is as it were 
making himself intimate with a class of men whose 
names will be read with admiration by a grateful posteri- 
ty. It is only by familiarizing the mind with the sub- 
lime objects of science, and diffusing them over the face 
of the earth, that we can expect to establish that spirit 
of philanthropy and social order, which is so necessary 
to the happiness of the human race. 
I am, &c. &c. 
RICHARD WINTER, 
No. 2. 
As many of the papers which will appear in this work, 
will be derived from the English, French, and other 
periodical works of the continent of Europe, it be- 
comes necessary, in order to understand the weights 
and measures, &c. to give the tables, with their cor- 
responding value to those which we usually employ. 
These tables will with propriety occupy the first few 
pages of our work, to which reference can be at all 
times conveniently made. Ed. 
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Of English Weights and Measures* 
THE weights and measures required by the chemist 
are few and simple, but they should be accurate, and 
their relative values well defined. 
Aikin’s Chemical Dictionary, vol. 2, 
