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Englifh inches
1 Fr. feet or b
'chei
1.
12.785
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—-
1.06544-
2*
25.570
2
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2.1308
3-
3^-355
3
ZZ
3.1962
4.
zz
51.140
4
ZZ
4.2616
5-
~
63.925
5
ZZ
5-327°
6.
76.710
6
zz
6-39 2 5
7-
89.495
7
ZZ
7.4579
8.
~
102.280
8
zz
8-5233
9-
115.065
9
zz
9.5887
1 0.
iz:
. 127.850
JO
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10.6541
11
!-
11.7195
12
zz
12.7850
foot or inch 22:
1.13510
Engl
ifh- fquare foot or inch
1 he Englifh lquare foot or inch “
.88126
The French cubic foot or inch ~
1.209367
Englifh cubic foot or inch
The Englifh cubic foot or inch =2
.8268784 French cubic foot or inch
inch
1
zz
i-2093+
b
—
7.2562
2
zz
2.4187
7
8.4655
3
zz
3.6281
8
ZZ
9.6749
4
—:
4.8374
9
zz
10.8843
5
6.0468
10
zz
12.0936
When one French cubic inch weighs r grain French , or contains r gr. of any other fubftance,I Englifh cubic inch of the fame weighs or contains .67839 Eng . grain.
For meafures of capacity the old French was (as in this country) different for dry meafureand for liquids. The common integer for moderate quantities of liquids was the Pinte, whichis a little more than a quart Englifh wine meafure. The Chepine is half the Pinte , and the Poifonis a quarter of the Chopine. For larger meafures, 8 Pintes make a Septier or Velte and 36 Veltesmake a Muid de Vin Paris meafure, for in the provinces both the divifions and their value weredifferent. There appears alfo to have been, even in Paris , precifely the fame kind of variationin the eftimation of die Pinte as obtains in this country with the wine pint. The French Pinteappears to have been legally equivalent to 48 Fr. cubic inches, and then was exactly of theMuid, which was 8 cubic feet. But Beaume, and probably the other apothecaries of Paris (abody of men abounding in excellent and eminent chemifts) make the Pinte equal to 32 French ounces of water at the freezing point. The refpective valuations of the Pinte will therefore beas follows:
0x. lbs. troy En. cub.inch Fr.cub.in. Eng.iviriepint
The pinte of 32 22: 2.62536 = 59.888 — 49.52 — 2.07404cub.inch Etig.cub.inch
The pinte of 48 — 58.0489 — 2.01035
difference .06369, equal to
about 7 drams, 40 grs. Troy of water.
This difference of nearly an ounce in a quart is fufficiently great to be often felt in the com-parifon of experiments. The Pinte of 48 Fr. cubic inches appears for another reafon to be thelegal ftandard, fince it is thus given in the comparifon of the old with the new French weights.The Pinte is there Ihted to be equal to .9512 of a Litre , which is equal to 2.01038 Englifhwine pints.
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