Note 12 — Chapter VIII · MAKING A NIGHT OF IT.
Reading edition
An ort, or mark, is the fifth part of a specie-daler, equivalent to ninepence or tenpence of our money. A skilling is about the same as an English halfpenny; the word, however, is pronounced exactly the same as our English word shilling, the k being soft before i; a circumstance which rather perplexes the stranger in his calculations.