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make the ftrongeft beer -, and nothing'can be found 

 as a fubllitute for it. Is not this union of an am- 

 malized and vegetable fubftance, in the fame grain^ 

 a certain indication that it is defigned as the princi- 

 pal food of a being, who, like man, is deftined to 

 fubfift on animal and vegetable fubftanccs ? 



If there are men very lean, withered, and de- 

 crepid, in countries where they fubfift on bread> 

 this is not, fir, becaufe they eat only bread, fince 

 it is known that the Roman legions lived upon it, 

 and were very healthy; but it is becaufe they do 

 not eat enough of it, or eat that which is bad j 

 either it does not afford nourifhment fufficient, or 

 the quality is badj and they are alfo worn out 

 with hard labour. 



If there is a fmall diftrift in the Pyrenean moun- 

 tains, where every houfe contains a patriarch, and 

 every garden receives a happy man who fubfifts 

 on maize, which does not grow on many other 

 mountains, it is becaufe they are entirely ignorant 

 of our manners, and are wife enough not to have 

 any ambition of knowing them -, but this way of 

 thinking would render them equally happy with 

 flour-milk as with their Turkifh corn. In thefc 

 countries the clearnefs of the air prevents the in- 

 Z 2 conveniences 



