WEIGHT. 
TABLE, 
Showing I he comparison between French and 
English grains. de Marc.) 
TrCDch irrs. 
= En". crs. 
En?. ers. = 
French srrs. 
1 
0 . 8203 
1 
1.2189 
2 
1.6407 
2 
2.4378 
3 
2.4611 
3 
3.6568 
4 
3.2815 
4 
4.8757 
5 
4.1019 
5 
6.0947 
6 
4.9223 
6 
7.3136 
7 
5.7427 
7 
8.5325 
8 
6.5631 
8 
9.7515 
9 
7 .o8.‘55 
9 
10.9704 
10- 
8.203 
10 
12.189 
20 
16.407 
20 
24.378 
30 
24.611 
30 
36.568 
40 
32.815 
40 
48.757 
50 
41.019 
50 
60.947 
60 
49.223 
60 
73.136 
70 
57.427 
70 
85.325 
80 
65.631 
80 
97.513 
90 
73.835 
90 
109.704 
100 
82.03 
100 
121.89 
200 
164.07 
200 
243.78 
300 
246.11 
300 
565 , 68 
400 
328.151 
400 
487.57 
500 
410.19 
500 
609.47 
600 
492.23 
600 
731.36 
700 
574.27 
700 
853.25 
800 
656. 3^ 
800 
975.15 
900 
738.35 
900 
1097.04 
1000 
820.3 
1000 
1218.9 
2000 
1640.7 
2000 
2437.8 
3000 
2461.1 
3000 
3656.8 
4000 
3281.5 
4000 
4875.7 
5000 
4101.9 
5000 
6094.7 
6000 
4922.3 
6000 
7313.6 
7000 
5742.7 
7000 
855‘2 . 5 
8000 
6563.1 
8000 
9751/5 
9000 
7383.5 
9000 
10970.4 
10,000 
8233.0 
10,000 
12189.0 
. 
GERMAN. 
71 lbs. or ^rs. English troy = 74 lbs. or 
grs. German apothecaries weight. 
1 oz. Nuremberg medic, weight z= 7 dr. 
2 sc. 9 grains English. 
1 mark Cologne = 7 oz. 2 dw’t. 4 gr. 
English troy. 
DUTCH. 
1 Ih. Dutch = llb. 3 oz. 16 dwt. 7 gr. 
Eiiglhh troy. 
787^ lbs. Dutch = 1038 lbs. English troy. 
SWEDISH WEIGHTS, 
Used by Bergman and Scheele. 
The Swedish pound, which is divided 
like the English apothecary, or troy pound, 
weighs 6536 grains troy. 
The kanne of pnre water, according to 
Bergman, weighs 42250 Swedish grain.s, 
and occupies 100 Swedish cubical inches. 
Hence the kanne of pure water weighs 
48088.719444 English troy grains, or is 
equal to 189.9413 English cubic inches ; 
and the Swedish longitudinal inch is equal 
to 1.238435 English longitudinal inches. 
From these data, the following rules are 
deduced : 
1. To reduce Swedish longitudinal inches 
to English, multiply by 1.2384, or divide 
by 0.80747. 
2. To reduce Swedish to English cubical 
inches, multiply by 1.9, or divide by 0.5265. 
3. To reduce the Swedish pound, ounce, 
dram, scruple, or grain, to the correspond- 
ing English troy denomination, multiply by 
1.1382, or divide by 8.786. 
4 . To reduce the Swedish kannes to Eng- 
lish wine pints, multiply by .1520207, or di- 
vide by 6.57804. 
5. The lod, a weight sometimes used by- 
Bergman, is the 32d part of the Swedish 
pound : therefore, to reduce it to the Eng- 
lish troy pound, multiply by .03557, or di- 
vide by 28.1156. 
Universal Standard for Weights and Mea- 
sures, 
This is an object of vast importance 
could it be attained : we fear, however, that 
like a project for universal peace and good 
will among men, it is a thing rather to be 
desired than expected, in the present state 
of things. Philosophers may speculate on the 
importance and excellence of such a scheme, 
but statesmen, busy in projects of ambition, 
have not leisure to attend to any thing that 
does not augment their power, extend their 
influence, and render them rather a terror 
to mankind, than the objects of their praise 
and veneration. It behoves us, however, 
to give, in few words, a sketch of what has 
been attempted with a view to an universal 
standard for weights and measures through 
the whole world. The plans laid down have 
been deduced from philosophical principle.^. 
After the invention of pendulum clocks, it 
occurred that the length of a pendulum 
^hich .should vibrate seconds would be pro- 
per to be made a universal standard for 
