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In the above series, the bushel, half biibhel, 
peck and half peck, will be the same as the present, 
deduced from the Winchester bushel ; and hence 
no variation ia what may properly be called dry 
measurei. 
The present wine gallon contains 231 cubic 
inches, English measure, which is equal to 133 
44 cubic new, or standard inches; and as the 
gallon, in the above series, is the one-ninth of a 
bushel, it will contain 138 |-x standard cubic 
inches, which exceeds the present gallon by a little 
more than 4 cubic inches, or nearly a gill ^ or more 
correctly 3465 new or standard gallons, of nine, to 
the bushel, are equal to 3584 of the present wine 
gallons; and the same proportion holds, in all the 
measures below the gallon, to the gill inclusive. 
Dealers in spirits and wines will therefore readily 
compute the value, and compare it with the old. 
It having been found, by most accurate experi¬ 
ment, that an English cubic foot of pure rain water 
weighs precisely one thousand ounces avoirdupois; 
and as the standard or American foot will be the 
same as the English, but divided into ten inches,, 
the cubic foot will consist of one thousand standard 
cubic inches ; and thus one standard cubic inch of 
pure rain water will precisely weigh one avoirdu¬ 
pois ounce; and as the avoirdupois weight will pre¬ 
vail in the series of new weights, herein after men¬ 
tioned, it is evident that those who have/measiires 
