The Scholar's Arithmetic; or Federal
Accountant, by Daniel Adams, M.B., Fifth Edition, Published According to
Act of Congress, Printed By and For John Prentiss, Keene, New
Hampshire, 1808 — 216 pages — illustrated with several small engravings —
measures 5" x 8 1/16" — disbound.
Containing:
I.
Common Arithmetic, The Rules and Illustrations
II.
Examples and Answers with Blank Spaces, Sufficient for Their Operations by the Scholar
III.
To each Rule a Supplement, Comprehending, 1. Questions on the Nature of
the Rule, Its Use, and the Manner of Its Operations. 2. Exercises
IV.
Federal Money, with Rules for All the Various Operations In It — To Reduce Federal to Old Lawful and Old Lawful to Federal Money
V.
Interest cast in Federal Money, with Compound Multiplication, Compound
Division and Practice, wrought in Old Lawful and in Federal Money, the
same Questions being put, in separate rate columns, on the same page, in
each kind of money, by which these two modes of account become
contrasted and the Great Advantage Gained by Reckoning in Federal Money
Easily Discerned
VI.
Demonstrations by Engravings of the Reason and Nature of the Various
Steps in the Extraction of the Square and Cube Roots, not to be found in
any other Treatise on Arithmetic
VII.
Forms of Notes, Deeds, Bonds, and other Instruments of Writing
The Whole in a Form and Method Altogether New, for the East of the Master and the Greater Progress of the Scholar.