Pasley, Royal Engineer, F.R.

S., published in London, in 1834, he pays the following well-merited compliment to Mr.Adams:-- "I cannot pass over the labors of former writers, without acknowledging in particular, the benefit which I have derived, whilst investigating the historical part of my subject, from a book printed at Washington, in 1821, as an official Report on Weights and Measures, made by a distinguished American statesman, Mr.John Quincy Adams, to the Senate of the United States, of which he was afterwards President.

This author has thrown more light into the history of our old English weights and measures, than all former writers on the same subject.

His views of historical facts, even where occasionally in opposition to the reports of our own Parliamentary Committees, appear to me to be the most correct.

For my own part, I confess that I do not think I could have seen my way into the history of English weights and measures, in the feudal ages, without his guidance." To his other accomplishments Mr.Adams added that of a poet.