Observations on the Expediency and Practicability of Simplifying and Improving the Measures, Weights, and Money Used in This Country, Without Materially Altering the Present Standards (Classic Reprint)

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As the Article alluded to was stated to be a Review of three pamphlets published in Scotland, of which the first appeared in Glasgow in 1823, in reference to the Bill for ascertaining and establishing conformity of Weights and Measures, which was then under discussion; I thought it probable, that those ideas of the Reviewer, which were similar to mine, might have been suggested by the Remarks of the Author of those Pamphlets, awho conse quently might have anticipated me also, in my opinions; and there fore, I deemed it proper to suspend my own publication, until I had ascertained thispoint.

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