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See Niles' Weekly Register, New Series, vol. xv., pp. 218, 219.
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Sparks' Life and Writings of Washington, xi., p. 56, and p. 188.
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The writer of this Memoir.
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See pages 18 and 19.
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The Report of Mr. Adams, when Secretary of State, on weights and measures, at the call of Congress, sufficiently evidences the ultimate usefulness of these researches.