THE research for a simple, unalterable, and universal standard of weight and measure, has frequently exercised the ingenuity and attention of many of the first legislators and mathematicians in every age; but that such Standard existed from all antiquity, has not I believe been so much as 'surmised-far less will it be supposed that we are to look to India for the most unexceptionable evidence, in support of a fact, which is doubtless most clearly, though incidentally, deducible from Holy Scripture.

If this were a hasty or inconsiderate observation, it might claim to be treated as such; on the other hand, when a diligent" and protracted research has served to amplify and strengthen the proofs, whether in reference to past or existing usages, to modern or ancient nations, to the whole range of sacred or profane literature, it may well bespeak an indulgent hearing; nor can there be a doubt, that the result of a rigid inquiry will produce an equally delightful assurance on the mind of every impartial reader, as it has on that of the author; that the Bible stands alone, unequalled for its antiquity, consistency, and truth; that its institutes and precepts moreover, of whatever kind, whether of moral or spiritual tendency, are suited equally to every description and stage of society, and calculated alike to the same great ends, which characterize the perfection of goodness and wisdom. The discovery of these particulars, has been arrived at, through many an unpromising and intricate path, in which men of far greater capabilities have bewildered themselves to no purpose-till a certain perception of their reality has been attained, the faithful, though imperfect report of which, may pro-. bably induce others to examine for themselves, and establish to the satisfaction of the most enlightened scholar, that all knowledge must of necessity have come by inspiration; that man in the image of his Maker was once created perfect in all his faculties:

THE

the Authors respects

EXPEDIENCY AND FACILITY

OP ESTABLISHING THE

Metrological and Monetary Systems.

THROUGHOUT INDIA,

ON A SCIENTIFIC AND PERMANENT BASIS,

GROUNDED ON AN ANALYTICAL REVIEW OF THE

WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND COINS

OF INDIA,

AND THEIR RELATIVE QUANTITIES

WITH RESPECT TO SUCH AS SUBSIST AT PRESENT, OR
HAVE HITHERTO SUBSISTED IN ALL PAST AGES

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

IN CONNEXION WITH WHICH, THE MEASURES OF TIME,

OR

Elementary Principles of Technical Chronology

OP

EASTERN NATIONS,

Are investigated, explained, and now for the first time
referred to their proper originals.

BY CAPTAIN T. B. JERVIS,

ENGINEERS..

"Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgement, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, a just hin shall ye have. I am the LORD your Gop." Leviticus, xix. 35, 36.

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