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judge from the weighc of (he accoutrements whkh 

 they carried, neither did it make them lefs brave, 

 or in any degree unhealthy j nay, it is very pro- 

 bable, that the nioft certain method of preventing* 

 epidemic difeafes in the army, where it is fo diffi- 

 cult to procure, good animal food, would be to re- 

 duce them to the fimple diet of the Roman foldiery. 



Secondly. It is very doubtful whether thofe coun- 

 tries wejr?.a:)0J:e. populous^ than they are at this timej 

 it is even very probable, that they were Ids fo, 



Finally, The people of thefe Northern countries 

 w^ere not without wheat : it was the bafis of their 

 food and their drink : without quoting other authors 

 who atteft it, fuffice it to fay, that Tacitus aifirms 

 it in his De Morih, Cerrn^ cap. 23, 25, 26.* 



Mont Linguet's fecond remark is, that of nind 

 hundred millions of men, there are fcarcely fifty 

 rniliions that ufe corn for their food; but in this he 



is 



• Portui humor ex hordeo aut frumento, cap. 23. Frumenti mo- 



dum dominus injungit, cap. 25. Agri per vices occupantur, cap. 2l6f 



lAon contendunt ut pomaria conferant et prata feparent et hortos ri- 



gent fala terrse feges imperatur.- Corn then M^as the only objecfl of 



t^eir culture : and milk boiled with flour, wild apples, frelh game* 



a?id curdled milk, appear to have been, their principal nouriihment 



or food. 



Not 



