An Inquiry Into the English System of Weights and Measure...
Alexander, John Henry Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the English System of Weights and MeasuresTo return from this discussion. The third way of construing the Silian law is to suppose that, between the two measures of capacity, the framers of it intended a proportionate equality in weigh and measure combined. And this seems to me the best founded. I do not deny that dissimilar practices, proceeding upon both of the other interpretations, and leading to the introducti...