Nathaniel Lord Britton,
An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States…
(1913)
“ In the Metric System. The metre= 39.37 inches, or 3 feet 3.37 inches.⎫ The decimetre= 3.94 inches.⎥ The centimetre = 2/5 of an inch, or 43/4 lines. ⎬very nearly The millimetre = 1/25 of an inch, or 1/2 a line. ”
