| Pure gold of 24 carats melted but not hammered | 19.2581 |
| The same hammered | 19.3617 |
| Gold of the Parisian standard, 22 carats fine, not hammered(A) | 17.4863 |
| The same hammered | 17.5894 |
| Gold of the standard of French coin, 21-22/32 carats fine, not hammered | 17.4022 |
| The same coined | 17.6474 |
| Gold of the French trinket standard, 20 carats fine, not hammered | 15.7090 |
| The same hammered | 15.7746 |
[Note A: The same with Sterling.]
| Pure or virgin silver, 24 deniers, not hammered | 10.4743 |
| The same hammered | 10.5107 |
| Silver of the Paris standard, 11 deniers 10 grains fine, not hammered(B) | 10.1752 |
| The same hammered | 10.3765 |
| Silver, standard of French coin, 10 deniers 21 grains fine, not hammered | 10.0476 |
| The same coined | 10.4077 |
[Note B: This is 10 grs. finer than Sterling.]
| Crude platina in grains | 15.6017 |
| The same, after being treated with muriatic acid | 16.7521 |
| Purified platina, not hammered | 19.5000 |
| The same hammered | 20.3366 |
| The same drawn into wire | 21.0417 |
| The same passed through rollers | 22.0690 |
| Copper, not hammered | 7.7880 |
| The same wire drawn | 8.8785 |
| Brass, not hammered | 8.3958 |
| The same wire drawn | 8.5441 |
| Cast iron | 7.2070 |
| Bar iron, either screwed or not | 7.7880 |
| Steel neither tempered nor screwed | 7.8331 |
| Steel screwed but not tempered | 7.8404 |
| Steel tempered and screwed | 7.8180 |
| Steel tempered and not screwed | 7.8163 |
| Pure tin from Cornwall melted and not screwed | 7.2914 |
| The same screwed | 7.2994 |
| Malacca tin, not screwed | 7.2963 |
| The same screwed | 7.3065 |
| Molten lead | 11.3523 |
| Molten zinc | 7.1908 |
| Molten bismuth | 9.8227 |
| Molten cobalt | 7.8119 |
| Molten arsenic | 5.7633 |
| Molten nickel | 7.8070 |
| Molten antimony | 6.7021 |
| Crude antimony | 4.0643 |
| Glass of antimony | 4.9464 |
| Molybdena | 4.7385 |
| Tungstein | 6.0665 |
| Mercury | 13.5681 |
| White Oriental diamond | 3.5212 |
| Rose-coloured Oriental ditto | 3.5310 |
| Oriental ruby | 4.2833 |
| Spinell ditto | 3.7600 |
| Ballas ditto | 3.6458 |
| Brasillian ditto | 3.5311 |
| Oriental topas | 4.0106 |
| Ditto Pistachio ditto | 4.0615 |
| Brasillian ditto | 3.5365 |
| Saxon topas | 3.5640 |
| Ditto white ditto | 3.5535 |
| Oriental saphir | 3.9941 |
| Ditto white ditto | 3.9911 |
| Saphir of Puy | 4.0769 |
| Ditto of Brasil | 3.1307 |
| Girasol | 4.0000 |
| Ceylon jargon | 4.4161 |
| Hyacinth | 3.6873 |
| Vermillion | 4.2299 |
| Bohemian garnet | 4.1888 |
| Dodecahedral ditto | 4.0627 |
| Syrian ditto | 4.0000 |
| Volcanic ditto, with 24 sides | 2.4684 |
| Peruvian emerald | 2.7755 |
| Crysolite of the jewellers | 2.7821 |
| Ditto of Brasil | 2.6923 |
| Beryl, or Oriental aqua marine | 3.5489 |
| Occidental aqua marine | 2.7227 |
| Pure rock cristal of Madagascar | 2.6530 |
| Ditto of Brasil | 2.6526 |
| Ditto of Europe, or gelatinous | 2.6548 |
| Cristallized quartz | 2.6546 |
| Amorphous ditto | 2.6471 |
| Oriental agate | 2.5901 |
| Agate onyx | 2.6375 |
| Transparent calcedony | 2.6640 |
| Carnelian | 2.6137 |
| Sardonyx | 2.6025 |
| Prase | 2.5805 |
| Onyx pebble | 2.6644 |
| Pebble of Rennes | 2.6538 |
| White jade | 2.9502 |
| Green jade | 2.9660 |
| Red jasper | 2.6612 |
| Brown ditto | 2.6911 |
| Yellow ditto | 2.7101 |
| Violet ditto | 2.7111 |
| Gray ditto | 2.7640 |
| Jasponyx | 2.8160 |
| Black prismatic hexahedral schorl | 3.3852 |
| Black spary ditto | 3.3852 |
| Black amorphous schorl, called antique basaltes | 2.9225 |
| Paving stone | 2.4158 |
| Grind stone | 2.1429 |
| Cutler's stone | 2.1113 |
| Fountainbleau stone | 2.5616 |
| Scyth stone of Auvergne | 2.5638 |
| Ditto of Lorrain | 2.5298 |
| Mill stone | 2.4835 |
| White flint | 2.5941 |
| Blackish ditto | 2.5817 |
| Opake green Italian serpentine, or gabro of the Florentines | 2.4295 | |
| Coarse Briancon chalk | 2.7274 | |
| Spanish chalk | 2.7902 | |
| Foliated lapis ollaris of Dauphiny | 2.7687 | |
| Ditto ditto from Sweden | 2.8531 | |
| Muscovy talc | 2.7917 | |
| Black mica | 2.9004 | |
| Common schistus or slate | 2.6718 | |
| New slate | 2.8535 | |
| White rasor hone | 2.8763 | |
| Black and white hone | 3.1311 | |
| Rhombic or Iceland cristal | 2.7151 | |
| Pyramidal calcareous spar | 2.7141 | |
| Oriental or white antique alabaster | 2.7302 | |
| Green Campan marble | 2.7417 | |
| Red Campan marble | 2.7242 | |
| White Carara marble | 2.7168 | |
| White Parian marble | 2.8376 | |
| Various kinds of calcareous stones used in France for building. | from | 1.3864 |
| to | 2.3902 | |
| Heavy spar | 4.4300 | |
| White fluor | 3.1555 | |
| Red ditto | 3.1911 | |
| Green ditto | 3.1817 | |
| Blue ditto | 3.1688 | |
| Violet ditto | 3.1757 | |
| Red scintilant zeolite from Edelfors | 2.4868 | |
| White scintilant zeolite | 2.0739 | |
| Cristallized zeolite | 2.0833 | |
| Black pitch stone | 2.0499 | |
| Yellow pitch stone | 2.0860 | |
| Red ditto | 2.6695 | |
| Blackish ditto | 2.3191 | |
| Red porphyry | 2.7651 | |
| Ditto of Dauphiny | 2.7033 | |
| Green serpentine | 2.8960 | |
| Black ditto of Dauphiny, called variolite | 2.9339 | |
| Green ditto from Dauphiny | 2.9883 | |
| Ophites | 2.9722 | |
| Granitello | 3.0626 | |
| Red Egyptian granite | 2.6541 | |
| Beautiful red granite | 2.7609 | |
| Granite of Girardmas | 2.7163 | |
| Pumice stone | .9145 | |
| Lapis obsidianus | 2.3480 | |
| Pierre de Volvic | 2.3205 | |
| Touch stone | 2.4153 | |
| Basaltes from Giants Causeway | 2.8642 | |
| Ditto prismatic from Auvergne | 2.4153 | |
| Glass gall | 2.8548 | |
| Bottle glass | 2.7325 | |
| Green glass | 2.6423 | |
| White glass | 2.8922 | |
| St Gobin cristal | 2.4882 | |
| Flint glass | 3.3293 | |
| Borax glass | 2.6070 | |
| Seves porcelain | 2.1457 | |
| Limoges ditto | 2.3410 | |
| China ditto | 2.3847 | |
| Native sulphur | 2.0332 | |
| Melted sulphur | 1.9907 | |
| Hard peat | 1.3290 | |
| Ambergrease | .9263 | |
| Yellow transparent amber | 1.0780 |
| Distilled water | 1.0000 | |||
| Rain water | 1.0000 | |||
| Filtered water of the Seine | 1.00015 | |||
| Arcueil water | 1.00046 | |||
| Avray water | 1.00043 | |||
| Sea water | 1.0263 | |||
| Water of the Dead Sea | 1.2403 | |||
| Burgundy wine | .9915 | |||
| Bourdeaux ditto | .9939 | |||
| Malmsey Madeira | 1.0382 | |||
| Red beer | 1.0338 | |||
| White ditto | 1.0231 | |||
| Cyder | 1.0181 | |||
| Highly rectified alkohol | .8293 | |||
| Common spirits of wine | .8371 | |||
| Alkohol | 15 pts. | water | 1 part. | .8527 |
| 14 | 2 | .8674 | ||
| 13 | 3 | .8815 | ||
| 12 | 4 | .8947 | ||
| 11 | 5 | .9075 | ||
| 10 | 6 | .9199 | ||
| 9 | 7 | .9317 | ||
| 8 | 8 | .9427 | ||
| 7 | 9 | .9519 | ||
| 6 | 10 | .9594 | ||
| 5 | 11 | .9674 | ||
| 4 | 12 | .9733 | ||
| 3 | 13 | .9791 | ||
| 2 | 14 | .9852 | ||
| 1 | 15 | .9919 | ||
| Sulphuric ether | .7394 | |||
| Nitric ether | .9088 | |||
| Muriatic ether | .7298 | |||
| Acetic ether | .8664 | |||
| Sulphuric acid | 1.8409 | |||
| Nitric ditto | 1.2715 | |||
| Muriatic ditto | 1.1940 | |||
| Red acetous ditto | 1.0251 | |||
| White acetous ditto | 1.0135 | |||
| Distilled ditto ditto | 1.0095 | |||
| Acetic ditto | 1.0626 | |||
| Formic ditto | .9942 | |||
| Solution of caustic ammoniac, | or volatil alkali fluor | .8970 | ||
| Essential or volatile oil | of turpentine | .8697 | ||
| Liquid turpentine | .9910 | |||
| Volatile oil of lavender | .8938 | |||
| Volatile oil of cloves | 1.0363 | |||
| Volatile oil of cinnamon | 1.0439 | |||
| Oil of olives | .9153 | |||
| Oil of sweet almonds | .9170 | |||
| Lintseed oil | .9403 | |||
| Oil of poppy seed | .9288 | |||
| Oil of beech mast | .9176 | |||
| Whale oil | .9233 | |||
| Womans milk | 1.0203 | |||
| Mares milk | 1.0346 | |||
| Ass milk | 1.0355 | |||
| Goats milk | 1.0341 | |||
| Ewe milk | 1.0409 | |||
| Cows milk | 1.0324 | |||
| Cow whey | 1.0193 | |||
| Human urine | 1.0106 |
| Common yellow or white rosin | 1.0727 |
| Arcanson | 1.0857 |
| Galipot(A) | 1.0819 |
| Baras(A) | 1.0441 |
| Sandarac | 1.0920 |
| Mastic | 1.0742 |
| Storax | 1.1098 |
| Opake copal | 1.1398 |
| Transparent ditto | 1.0452 |
| Madagascar ditto | 1.0600 |
| Chinese ditto | 1.0628 |
| Elemi | 1.0182 |
| Oriental anime | 1.0284 |
| Occidental ditto | 1.0426 |
| Labdanum | 1.1862 |
| Ditto in tortis | 2.4933 |
| Resin of guaiac | 1.2289 |
| Ditto of jallap | 1.2185 |
| Dragons blood | 1.2045 |
| Gum lac | 1.1390 |
| Tacamahaca | 1.0463 |
| Benzoin | 1.0924 |
| Alouchi(B) | 1.0604 |
| Caragna(C) | 1.1244 |
| Elastic gum | .9335 |
| Camphor | .9887 |
| Gum ammoniac | 1.2071 |
| Sagapenum | 1.2008 |
| Ivy gum(D) | 1.2948 |
| Gamboge | 1.2216 |
| Euphorbium | 1.1244 |
| Olibanum | 1.1732 |
| Myrrh | 1.3600 |
| Bdellium | 1.3717 |
| Aleppo Scamony | 1.2354 |
| Smyrna ditto | 1.2743 |
| Galbanum | 1.2120 |
| Assafoetida | 1.3275 |
| Sarcocolla | 1.2684 |
| Opoponax | 1.6226 |
| Cherry tree gum | 1.4817 |
| Gum Arabic | 1.4523 |
| Tragacanth | 1.3161 |
| Basora gum | 1.4346 |
| Acajou gum(E) | 1.4456 |
| Monbain gum(F) | 1.4206 |
| Inspissated juice of liquorice | 1.7228 |
| —— Acacia | 1.5153 |
| —— Areca | 1.4573 |
| Terra Japonica | 1.3980 |
| Hepatic aloes | 1.3586 |
| Socotrine aloes | 1.3795 |
| Inspissated juice of St John's wort | 1.5263 |
| Opium | 1.3366 |
| Indigo | .7690 |
| Arnotto | .5956 |
| Yellow wax | .9648 |
| White ditto | .9686 |
| Ouarouchi ditto(G) | .8970 |
| Cacao butter | .8916 |
| Spermaceti | .9433 |
| Beef fat | .9232 |
| Veal fat | .9342 |
| Mutton fat | .9235 |
| Tallow | .9419 |
| Hoggs fat | .9368 |
| Lard | .9478 |
| Butter | .9423 |
[Note A: Resinous juices extracted in France from the Pine. Vide Bomare's Dict.]
[Note B: Odoriferous gum from the tree which produces the Cortex Winteranus. Bomare.]
[Note C: Resin of the tree called in Mexico Caragna, or Tree of Madness. Ibid.]
[Note D: Extracted in Persia and the warm countries from Hedera terrestris.—Bomare.]
[Note E: From a Brasilian tree of this name.—Ibid.]
[Note F: From a tree of this name.—Ibid.]
[Note G: The produce of the Tallow Tree of Guayana. Vide Bomare's Dict.]
| Heart of oak 60 years old | 1.1700 |
| Cork | .2400 |
| Elm trunk | .6710 |
| Ash ditto | .8450 |
| Beech | .8520 |
| Alder | .8000 |
| Maple | .7550 |
| Walnut | .6710 |
| Willow | .5850 |
| Linden | .6040 |
| Male fir | .5500 |
| Female ditto | .4980 |
| Poplar | .3830 |
| White Spanish ditto | .5294 |
| Apple tree | .7930 |
| Pear tree | .6610 |
| Quince tree | .7050 |
| Medlar | .9440 |
| Plumb tree | .7850 |
| Olive wood | .9270 |
| Cherry tree | .7150 |
| Filbert tree | .6000 |
| French box | .9120 |
| Dutch ditto | 1.3280 |
| Dutch yew | .7880 |
| Spanish ditto | .8070 |
| Spanish cypress | .6440 |
| American cedar | .5608 |
| Pomgranate tree | 1.3540 |
| Spanish mulberry tree | .8970 |
| Lignum vitae | 1.3330 |
| Orange tree | .7050 |
Note—The numbers in the above Table, if the Decimal point be carried three figures farther to the right hand, nearly express the absolute weight of an English cube foot of each substance in averdupois ounces. See No. VIII. of the Appendix.—E.
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