SE SS EE E m S m E D E EE TERE—

OF KENT; ISL

Books of the tranſa@ions of this Society are to be had e at the printing-oflice, Canterbury, price bd.

Some years ſince, a ſociety was eſtabliſhed at Maid-

ſtone, called the Kentiſh Society, for promoting every

f E branch of uſeful knowledge through the county of Kent, H This was begun under the patronage and ſupport of the of ol late Lord Romney, the Earl of Stanhope, and the pre- E ſent Lord Romney, then the Honeurable Charles Mar- ſham. Whether it was by aiming at too much, or from | a want of ſupport in ſubſcriptions, that it fell to the E ground, I am not competent to ſay. ud About a year ago, an attempt was made to eſtabliſh E another ſociety at Maidſtone, upon leſs general prin- h ciples; but joining ſome other ſciences with Agriculture. E There was a great number of the names of the firſt of ce 0! the nobility, gentry, and ycomanry, who, by public 1m, advertiſement, called meetings at Maidſtone, in order 0, n to ſettle the buſineſs; but cither from want of a full thing attendance, or of ſubſcriptions, their efforts were not to the attended with the defired ſucces, : g00d I SEcT.I— TVeights and Meaſures. neſted Tue difference of the weights and meaſures, is an IL give evil in trade and agriculture that moſt certainly requires 1to the a remedy, though the evil is much lefs in Kent than 1n e Cal many other counties. The pound weight is the avoir- nchley dupois, of ſixteen ounces; and the ſtone of meat, eight efter,” pounds at ſome places; and at others, fourteen pounds. of this Moft heavy goods are ſold by the ton, confiſting of prelent twenty hundred weight, each of 112 pounds, nd lè Since the late determination in the Court of King's r long Bench reſpedGing the meaſure of corn, all local mea- iles N23 ſures guble gos | | u————————— LS Mu e E SÁ 2