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I fhall make three obfervations on this paflagr. 



Firjli The armies of Gustavus Adolphus, 

 Charles the Xllth, and the King of Prussia, 

 n^hofe food was bread, would be as formidable' 

 againfl: the Italians of thefe times, (who eat left 

 than was eaten in the days of Scipio) as their an- 

 ccftors were fourteen hundred years fince againft the 

 Romans: And as M. Linguet fpeaks of conquefts, 

 he muft know certainly that thofe Greeks who fub- 

 fifted on bread, thofe Romans who ate nothing but 

 bread and vegetables in pottage, fubdued all the 

 known world, amongft whom were many nations 

 who ate lefs bread than themfelves. The ration or 

 allowance of bread for a Roman foldier was much 

 more than what foldiers have at prefent ; and they 

 were alfo much ftronger : The allowance to a Ro- 

 man foldier was 64 pounds of wheat per month, 

 which he was ftridly forbidden either to fell or ex- 

 change: They had very fddom any cheefe, bacon, 

 or pulfe ; wheat was then almoft their only food, 

 and the proportion was double what is allowed tlie 

 foldiers in our days: they ate it in bread, in flour- 

 milk, and in thin cakes, and they were not fubjeft 

 to epidemic and putrid difordcrs, as is but too much 

 the cafe with our armies at prefent. Bread-corn 

 then did nqt diminifli their (Irengch, as one may 



judge 



