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i!06 S'ECOND JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE IN 1814.tw~nty-fivepounds poids de marc i8 a hundred pounds poids de table. Then~w pound is the half kilogramme (five hundred grammes), and is to theEnglish pound as eleven to nine. The kilogramme is sixty-four inc1u~s()f water;, and twenty-seven cubie inc1les of salt water are as neat tothe Englishpound avoirdupois as (it ma!) be said), possible.The kilo.gramme was two pounds six ounces and a fraction poids de' table. Thedemi-kilogramme comes nearest to our pound weight in use, exceedingit by two and one-eighth pel' cent.Measurement of Contents.-The septier (a corn..measure) .weighs nin~tyFrench pounds. 'l'he hectalitre (which i8 "hat we. would calI tile sta~~temeasure) weighs in good wheat a bundred and sixtY to a hundred andsixty..five pounds *. Of liquid contents there are the litre t, sixty..twoinches, or nearly two new pounds weight, pl'obably the kilograJltm~;the pot, eighty inches, or one litre :1: and three tenths; the velt, ortwogallons, or twenty pounds weight; the muid§, wliichis three bordelaises,or ninety veZts, or fifteen quintals marc, or ~ighteen quintals MontpeUi~~measure. This bordelaise i8 thirty velts. A ton is fO\1'r bardelilis(NJof(lii~equintals marc.Of Lengtlt.-The French foot i8 longer than tbe Eoglish· by sixty..eight ift a thousand; the mdre is three feet three inches and seven..tendIS of an illCh, English meaStlre.In superftcial measurement,a thoHsand toises are 45Qôyards s