Excerpt from On an Uniform System of Weights, Measures, and Coins for All Nations The system is now either in actual operation, or its introduction has been sanctioned by legislative enactments in the following states besides France, namely, Belgium, Greece, Spain, Sardinia, Holland, Lombardy, Switzerland, Modena, Mexico, Chili, Columbia, and Costa Rica. The well known union of the German States (zollverein) for weights and measures has in part adopted the French metrical system. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.