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% f2>s. 125 proposed units will be equal to £5^^ or multiply the unit hf 
0.432, 
^ 81 , 
<£ 81 , 
<£27, 
<£63, 
£243, 
do. 0.405. 
do. 0.324. 
do. 0.27. 
do. 0.252. 
do. 0.243. 
A golden unit, of equal value with the proposed 
silver one, will contain of pure gold 6 grains, 1 
mite and 1 droit standard and one eleventh part of 
alloy, or 5 mites and 5 droits alloy, making the 
W'hole weigh 6 grains, 6 mites, 6 ^ droits stand¬ 
ard weight, equal to 29 4 troy grains, equal to 
one-fifteenth of the weight of one cubic standard 
inch of rain water ; hence 400 grains, 19 mites 
troy, of pure gold, and 36 grains 11 mites of alloy, 
making together 437 grains and 10 mites troy, will 
precisely make 15 golden units of the value of 108 
cents of the present dollar. 
As it is possible that some who may peruse this 
essay will not easily comprehend how the measures 
of one nation can be communicated to another, by 
means of the pendulum or pendulum rod, I shall 
therefore explain It. 
Let us suppose, that the pendulum rod, vibrat¬ 
ing seconds of lime in the 45th degree of latitude, 
be made the standard from whence the American 
measures are deduced, the lengtbof this rod, inthe 
new or standard inches, proposed in this essay, is 
48.9364 such inches, and divided into 23 equal 
parts, 4,7 of these parts will be 10 inches, or the 
