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CANADA.

44 lbs. 14 lbs. 40 lbs. 56 lbs. 22 lbs. 36 lbs.

By Act of 22nd Vict. cap. 21, the weights of many articles held equal to the Winchester bushel were prescribed, as follows: —

Potatoes, turnips, carrots, parsnips, beets, and onions. 60 lbs.

Flaxseed 50 lbs.

Hemp seed .....

Blue grass seed ....

Castor beans ....

Salt

Dried apples ....

Malt

By the same Act the British hundredweight of 112 pounds, and the ton of 2,240 pounds, were abolished, and the hundredweight was declared to be 100 pounds and the ton 2,000 pounds avoirdupois, thus assimilating the weights of Canada and the United States.

Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Canada and British North America.

1. Official Publications. Summary and comparative statements of the Imports and Exports of Canada, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868. 8. Ottawa, 1869.

Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions in the year 1869. Imp. 4. London, 1870. Statistical Tables relating to the Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom. Part XIV. Fol. London, 1870.

Statistical Abstract for the several Colonial and other Possessions of the United Kingdom. No. VI. 8. London, 1870.

Correspondence relative to the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces. London, 1865.

Further Correspondence relative to the proposed Union of the British North American Provinces. London, 1866.

2. Non-Official Publications. Canadian Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. 8. Toronto, 1870. Fail 1 'on (Abbe) Histoire de la Colonie Francaise en Canada. 2 vols. Fol. Montreal, 1865.

Howe (Hon. Joseph), Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the Empire. 8. London, 1866.

Hunt (F. Sterry) Canada : a Geographical, Agricultural, and Mineralogical Sketch. Published by authority of the Bureau of Agriculture, for distribution at the Dublin Exhibition. Toronto, 1865.

Macfie (Matthew) Vancouver Island and British Columbia ; their History, Eesources, and Prospects. 8. London, 1865.

Monro (Alex.), History, Geography, and Statistics of British North America. 12. Montreal, 1864.

BawHngs (Thomas') The Confederation of the British North American Pro- vinces : their Past History and Future Prospects. 8. London, 1866.

Russell (Wm. Henry) Canada : its Defences, Condition, and Resources. 8. London, 1865.

Year-Book and Almanac of Canada for 1870, being an Annual Statistical Abstract for the Dominion, and a Record of Legislation in British North America. 8. Pp. 192. Montreal, 1870. •