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mess consisting of twelve soldiers, themselves reckoned 

 in the number. The following accounts which they 

 gave me of their housekeeping, and of the expenses 

 of their tables, were all the genuine results of actual 

 experiments made at my particular desire, and at my 

 cost. 



I do not believe that useful information was ever 

 purchased cheaper than upon this occasion ; and I 

 fancy my reader will be of the same opinion, when he 

 has perused the following reports, which are literally 

 translated from the original German. ' 



" In obedience to the orders of Lieutenant-General 

 Count Rumford, the following experiments were made 

 by Serjeant Wickenhof's mess, in the first company 

 of the first (or Elector's own) regiment of grenadiers, 

 at Munich, on the loth and nth of June, 1795 : — 



June 10, 1795. 

 Bill of Fare : Boiled Beef with Soup and Bread Dumplings. 



DETAILS OF THE EXPENSE, ETC. 



For the Boiled Beef and the Soup. 



lbs. loths. Kreutzers. 



2 o beef* 16 



o I sweet herbs i 



o oi pepper o\ 



6 salt o4 



1 14^ ammunition bread, cut fine 2^ 



9 20 water o 



Total 13 10 Cost .... 2o| 



"All these articles were put together into an 

 earthen pot, and boiled two hours and a quarter. 

 The meat was then taken out of the soup and weighed, 



* The Bavarian pound (equal to 1 1^^-, or near one pound and a quarter 

 avoirdupois) is divided into 32 loths. 



