A weight of four thousand
pounds is represented by a displacement of the air amounting to forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet; or, in other words, forty-four thousand eight hundred and forty-seven cubic feet of air weigh about four thousand
pounds.
"What name stop four tens
pounds and seven fella
pounds?" Nau-hau demanded, his tongue, but not his brain, encompassing so prodigious a sum.
Ablewhite, senior, himself) for a loan of three hundred
pounds. Mark the sum; and remember at the same time, that the half-yearly payment to the young gentleman was due on the twenty-fourth of the month.
A solid shot of 108 inches would weigh more than 200,000
pounds, a weight evidently far too great.
It was under strong inward pressure of this kind that Fred had taken the wise step of depositing the eighty
pounds with his mother.
A package of banknotes, to the value of fifty-five thousand
pounds, had been taken from the principal cashier's table, that functionary being at the moment engaged in registering the receipt of three shillings and sixpence.
If he sold now he would lose altogether hard on three hundred and fifty
pounds; and that would leave him only eighty
pounds to go on with.
I'll be bound he'd be worth twenty
pounds next spring."
S'pose you like 'm, me take 'm one fella
pound along you in big book.
'Thirty
pounds is what he will have to pay the first year, and ten
pounds a year after that.
And farmed it he had, for twenty years, shrewd, cool-headed, sober, industrious, and thrifty, rising from ship's boy and forecastle hand to mate and master of sailing-ships and thence into steam, second officer, first, and master, from small command to larger, and at last to the bridge of the old Tryapsic--old, to be sure, but worth her fifty thousand
pounds and still able to bear up in all seas, and weather her nine thousand tons of freight.
"A subscription of five hundred
pounds, my Lady, would provide for everything--if it could only be collected."