[ so ] 
CoiNis, precious stones, gold, silver and medi¬ 
cines, are perhaps the only articles to which troy 
%veight has been applied, and as the ounce troy con¬ 
tains 480 grains, and the avoirdupois ounce 437“” 
grains, or the former to the latter as 192 to 
the dealers, in the articles above mentioned, may 
readily estimate their value in the new weights* 
Merchants, grocers and others make use of the 
avoirdupois weight in all the denominations of an 
ounce and upwards, and these being equal to the 
present weights, of the same denominatioiij no in¬ 
convenience can result. 
But if it should be judged more eligible, that a 
decimal series should prevail in the American mea¬ 
sures of length, capacity, weight and coins, we must 
still have recourse to the pendulum, as a standard, 
from which to deduce the series, and as before by 
dividing the rod into 23 equal parts, and taking 4 
and -A-ths of these parts, as the unit of long mea¬ 
sure, or American foot, we may have a series, as 
In the following table for 
