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is certainly guilty of a very great miftake, cither 

 wilfully, or through inadvertence; for, although 

 there may be fonac finall diftrids in Europe where 



Note by another Member. 



• Tacitus's words are, " Cibi fimpliccs agrcftla poma, rcccns 

 lipsa* ct lac concostuiiu" From, this M. TissoT coocludes, thattlm 

 bafis of thpir nq^rift^pcnt. y^'^ corn, which i? not once mentioned. It 

 is true )ieha« added, bouilties de cetteferine\ hut this is a mere interpo- 

 lation of a French difli, and not to be found in. Ta.Citv9. It i$ pro-w 

 bable they made u£e of corn more for the purpofe of brewing drink, 

 than for folid food. What Tacitus fays negatively, M. Tis sot 

 has. i;itjerprct£4 P9^y<^ 'f he &ys, indeed, that all they raifed ftora 

 the ground were cro^ of corn, and that they negleded the culture of 

 fhiit-trees, and impioving meadows. But their culture of com muft 

 have bcctt very lit^e^w1)en thjey never ctiltivated the l^me tra<5l for two 

 years together, and ftiJl there was a fuperfluity of land. " Arva pcr- 

 « annos mutant, ct fap«reft ager." Tacitus alfo feys, that the 

 M'hole wealth of th<; pf Qpjp cpnAfted in their cattlej. ai)d that all theii^ 

 fuies and mulcts were jjaid in cattle. " Sed ct levioribus dcU(5tls pro 

 «« modo pxnarum, equorum pecorumque numcro convi<5^i mulcf^antur.'* 

 (^ap.xii.— *< Lyitur 09)8(1 QU^xn, homicidium ceito armentorum, ac 

 pecorum numero.'' Cap. xxi^ 



Befides, it is hi^hlywmprobable that a people, who lived upon coru« 

 ftiould have no word i|i thplr language to exprefs the autumn or har- 

 ><e{ltimc oi the year, as Tacitus cxprefsly fays, «« Undc annum 

 *f quoque ipfum i)pn in, totidem digerunt fpecics, hiems, et ver, ct> 

 <* acftas,. intellc;<flum ac vocabula habent, autumni perinde nomen ac 

 ^ boDft ignorantur." 



But there it another proof more dire<Slly to the point, which is, tliat 

 J|uLiUS Cjesa^j in his Vlth book, giving an account of the Germans, 

 fays cxprefsly, that they did not mind Agriculture, but lived on milk^ 

 chcefe, and ftcfh meat ; and that Agriculture was purpofely difcouragcd 

 among them, leA it fhould lead to effeminacy. Add to this, that a die^ 

 of fleih it much more fuitable to a cold dinute, than one of vegetables. 



Had M. Tissot read thefe pafTages with accuracy and candoiu*, he 

 never could havq; ipade.fps^rurd au ai](crtioa« 



rice. 



