Excerpt from The Mercantile Arithmetic: Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations; With an Appendix, Containing Practical Systems of Mensuration, Gauging, and Book-Keeping
Nothing need be said of the propriety of the brief tracts of practical Mensuration and Gauging, which are annexed to the work. Such knowledge is as important and requisite, as most rules of Arithmetic, and what is inserted, is adapted to common purposes.
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