ITHACA
"A Spanish prisoner's donation of a distant treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a solvent banking corporation 100 years previously at 5% compound interest of the collective worth of £5,000,000 stg (five million pounds sterling). A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash payment on delivery per delivery at the initial rate of ¼d to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression of 2 (¼d, ½d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms)." (U17.1687)
