Excerpt from Welch's Improved American Arithmetic, Adapted to the Currency of the United States: To Which Is Added a Concise Treatise on the Mensuration of Planes and Solids The Revisor having been for many years engaged in instructing, found that a thorough knowledge of the Rule previous to the Operation of the Example, was highly requisite before any progress could be made; and that the easiest metho to simplify and make it familiar was far the best. This is presumed to be accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.