after being properly boiled were found to weigh 8 lb.--This gave for each portion 21 1/3 loths; and the amount of the cost (23 creutzers), divided by 12, the number of the portions, gives for each 1 11/12 creutzers.

The quantity of dry ammunition bread furnished to each person was 1 lb. 8 loths; and this, at two creutzers a pound, amounts to 2½ creutzers.

 Recapitulation.
For each person
lb. loths. Creutzers.
0 4½ of boiled
beef, and ] ... 1 31/48
1 8 of bread soup ]
0 21¼ of liver dumplins ... ... 1 11/12
1 8 of dry bread ... ... ...
2½
---------- ---------
3 9 5/6 of Food Cost 6 3/48 creutzers.
In Avoirdupois weight, and English money, it
is,--for each person:
lb. oz.
0 2.78 of boiled beef, and ] ... 0 948/1584
1 8.91 of bread soup ]
0 13.19 of
liver dumplins ... ... 0 276/306
1 8.76 of dry bread ... ... ... 0 10/11
------- -----------
4 1.54 of Food Cost
2 1/5 pence.
June 21st, 1795.
Bill of Fare.
Boiled beef, and bread soup, with bread dumplins.
Details of expenses, &c. for the boiled beef and bread soup.
The same as yesterday,
For the dumplins.
 lb. loths.
Creutzers.
2 30 semel bread ... ... ... 15½
0 18 fine flour ... ... ... 3
0 6 salt ... ... ... ... 0½
3 0 water ...
... ... ...
------- -------
6 22 Cost 19 creutzers.
These dumplins being boiled, were found to weigh 7 lb. which gave for each person 18 2/3 loths; and each portion cost 1 7/12 creutzers.

Dry ammunition bread furnished to each person 1 lb. 8 loths, which cost 2½ creutzers.

Recapitulation.

Each person belonging to the mess received this day:

 lb. loths. Creutzers.
0 4½ of boiled beef, and ] ...
1 31/48
1 8 of bread soup ]
0 18 2/3 of bread dumplins ... ... 1 7/12
1 8 of dry bread ... ... ... 2½
--------- -------
3 7 1/6 of Food Cost 5 35/42 creutzers
In Avoirdupois weight, and English money, it is,
lb.
oz.
0 2.78 of boiled beef, and ] ... 0 948/1584
1 8.76 of bread soup ]
0 11.54 of bread dumplins ... ... 0
228/396
1 8.76 of dry bread ... ... ... 0 10/11
------- ----------
4 0 of Food Cost 2 1/12 pence.
June 22d, 1795.
Bill of Fare.
Bread soup and meat dumplins.
Details of expenses, &c.
 lb. loths.
2 0 of beef ... ... ...
15
2 30 of semel bread ... 15½
0 18 of fine flour ... ... 3
0 1 of pepper ... ... 1
0 12 of salt ... ... ... 1
0 2
of sweet herbs ... 0½
2 24 of ammunition bread 3¼
2 16 of water to the dumplins
------
Cost 39¼ creutzers.
The meat being cut fine, or minced, was mixed with the semel or wheaten bread; and these with the flour, and a due proportion of salt, were made into dumplins, and boiled in the soup.--These dumplins when boiled, weighed 10 lb. which, divided into 12 equal portions, gave 20 2/3 loths for each.

The soup weighed 15 lb. which gave 1 lb. 8 loths for each portion.--Of dry ammunition bread, each person received 1 lb. 8 loths, which cost 2½ creutzers.

Recapitulation.

Each person received this day

 lb. loths. Creutzers
0 20 2/3 of meat dumplins, and ] ... 3 13/48
1 8 of
bread soup ]
1 8 of ammunition bread 2½
--------- -------
3 4 2/3 of Food Cost 5 37/48 creutzers.
In Avoirdupois
weight, and English money, it is,
lb. oz. Pence.
0 12.77 of meat dumplins, and ] ... 1 300/1584
1 8.76
of bread soup ]
1 8.76 of ammunition bread ... ... 0 10/11
-------- ----------
3 14.29 of Food Cost 2 1/10
pence.
The results of all these experiments, (and of many more which I could add,) show that the Bavarian soldier can live,--and the fact is that he actually does live,--upon a little more than two thirds of his allowance.-- Of the five creutzers a-day which he receives in money, he seldom puts more than two creutzers and a half, and never more than three creutzers into the mess; so that at least two-fifths of his pay remains, after he has defrayed all the expenses of his subsistence; and as he is furnished with every article of his clothing by the sovereign, and no stoppage is ever permitted to be made of any part of his pay, on any pretence whatever, there is no soldier in Europe whose situation is more comfortable.

Though the ammunition bread with which he is furnished is rather coarse and brown, being made of rye-meal, with only a small quantity of the coarser part of the bran separated from it, yet it is not only wholesome, but very nourishing; and for making soup it is even more palatable than wheaten bread. Most of the soldiers, however, in the Elector's service, and particularly those belonging to the Bavarian regiments, make a practice of selling a great part of their allowance of ammunition bread, and with the

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