in the French paper-trade, is a term for a quantity of paper, containing 24 reams.

BALLOON, or BALLOT, in the French glafls-trade, signifies a certain quantity of glafls-plates, smaller or greater according to their quality. The ballon of white glafl contains 25 bundles, of fix plates per bundle; but the ballon of coloured glafl is only of 12½ bundles, and of three plates to a bundle.