REVISED, CORRECTED, AND GREATLY ENLARGED, BY DANIEL ROBINSON. HALLOWELL: Maine PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY Glazier, MasteRS & Co, Sold by them at the Hallowell Bookstore, No. 1, Kennebec-Row, and by all the Booksellers in the State. 1831. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and the_fortyseventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, GooDALE, GLAZIER & COMPANY of the District of Maine, have deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors-in the words following, viz. :-" Improved edition with questions. A short system "of Practical Arithmetic, compiled from the best authorities; to which is "annexed a short plan of Book-keeping. The whole designed for the use of "Schools. By William Kinne, A. M. Fourth edition, with questions on every part of Arithmetic, and a compendious system of Tax making. Revised, "corrected and greatly enlarged, by Daniel Robinson. Hallowell, printed "and published by Goodale, Glazier & Co."-In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United-States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and also to an Act, entitled" An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JOHN MUSSEY, JR., Clerk of the District Court of Maine. Advertisement to the Seventh Edition. IT has been the primary purpose, in each improved Edition of this Work, to render it more and more plain and practical, while it should embrace every useful rule and question which might occur in the ordinary business transactions of life. To effect this object, neither time nor thought has been, in any wise, niggardly expended. Whatever was judged to be wanted, to characterize it as a plain, practical, and useful system, has been amply, though gradually, supplied. In the edition now presented to the public, part of the questions in which avoirdupois weight is concerned, has been written anew, or so altered as to allow 25 pounds only to the quarter of a hundred weight; because this practice now generally obtains in business, among merchants and traders in the United-States, and has moreover been established in Maine by legislative enactment. Considerable new matter also has been crowded into the volume, and a small portion of the old withdrawn. Errour has been diligently sought for and corrected; and, it is confidently believed, is now nowhere to be found on its pages. Considered as an Epitome, whether it be susceptible of any farther degree of improvement, may be reasonably questioned. The hope is, therefore, indulged, that, though the tongue of the CC caviller for search vain; D. R. yet the eye of the candid critic wil! see nothing in this compendium which |