Charles Sumner: “They are common, or cosmopolitan, and in all countries they are…”

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They are common, or cosmopolitan, and in all countries they are equally suggestive in disclosing the denomination of the measure.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner describes the prefixes in the metric system as universally suggestive of their respective measures.

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