The French have lately formed an entire new system of weights and measures: the following short account of them, and their proportion to the old weights and measures of France, and those of English standard, is extracted from _Nicholson’s Nat. Philosophy_. +---------------+---------------+ |Proportions of | First part of | |the measures of| the name which| |each species to| indicates the | |its principal | proportion to | |measure or | the principal | |unity. | measure or | | | unity. | +---------------+---------------+ | 10,000 | Myria | | 1,000 | Kilo | | 100 | Hecto | | 10 | Deca | | 0 | ——— | | 0.1 | Deci | | 0.01 | Centi | | 0.001 | Milli | +---------------+---------------+ =(A)= = Proportion of the principal measures between themselves and the length of the Meridian. =(B)= = Value of the principal measures in the ancient French measures. =(C)= = Value in English measures. +-----+------------------------------------------------------------+ | | PRINCIPAL MEASURES, or UNITIES. | | +------------+-----------+----------+----------+-------------+ | | Length. | Capacity. | Weight. | Agrarian.|For Firewood.| | +------------+-----------+----------+----------+-------------+ | | Metre. | Litre. | Gramme. | Are. | Stere. | +-----+------------+-----------+----------+----------+-------------+ | |10,000,000th| A | Weight |100 square| One cubic | | | part of the| Decimetre | of a | metres. | metre. | | (A) | dist. from | cube. |centimetre| | | | | the Pole | | cube of | | | | | to the | |distilled | | | | | Equator. | | water. | | | +-----+------------+-----------+----------+----------+-------------+ | | 3 feet |1 pint and |18 grains | 2 square |1 demi voie, | | (B) | 11 lines | 1-20, or a| & 841,000| perches |or ¼ of a | | | and ½ |litron and | parts. | des eaux |cord des eaux| | | nearly. |1-4 nearly.| | et toret.|et fore. | +-----+------------+-----------+----------+----------+-------------+ | | Inches |6.083 inch,| 22,966 | 11.968 | | | | 39.383 | which is | grains. | square | | | (C) | | more than | | yards. | | | | | the wine | | | | | | | & less | | | |