They are ounce bullets, I've heard you say ?" "They are exactly sixteen to the pound, and therefore each of them an ounce.

You are right, Karl, that is a standard.

Certainly it will do." The subject required no further sifting; and without delay they proceeded to ascertain the weight of two hundred yards of rope.

A balance was soon constructed and adjusted, as nicely as if they had meant to put gold in the scale.

Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones--whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets--and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.