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the Maw ; this is Hilted, and kept in calks, and, with the jiickle in 

 which it is preferved, goes by the name of Runnet. It is purchaied 

 by farmers, and when poured on milk* curdles it, of which curd, 

 cheefe is made. Some of this pickle I purchafed, in order to examine 

 it more accurately, but was obftrufted in my enquiry, by the numbers 

 of faline particles in it, 



I therefore purpofed to procure from a butcher, fome of the liquor 

 when newly taken out of the maw, as foon as the animal was killed ; 

 and I was informed, that if a calf had fwallowed any milk a few hours 

 before it was killed, there would be found in its maw a quantity of 

 coagulated or curdled milk, which it was cuftomary for the butchers 

 to take out and preferve with fait in ajar, (fome of which curd was 

 lliewn to me), in order to fell the fame to the farmers, who found by 

 experience that a fmall portion of this curdled milk, was of more 

 ftrength or virtue for their purpofe, than the liquor in which the maw 

 was pickled. 



I then went to another butcher's, where I faw the maw of a calf, 

 wherein, although the animal had not fucked for the fpace of t^^'enty 

 four hours before it was killed, I perceived fome portions of curdled 

 milk, larger than a walnut ; thefe I caui'ed to be waflied in clean 

 water, and carried them home with me, and I was much furprized to 

 find them as hard to the touch as new made cheefe. 



This curdled milk I put into a glafs, and poured on it rain water, 

 fo as to cover it about an inch, and then broke the curd into fmaller 

 pieces, in order that the faline particles, if any there were in it, might 

 be diflblved by the water ; and, after it had flood thus for fome hours, 

 I ftrained the water through a filtering paper, into a new and perfectly 

 clean glafs. 



*Kinnfn in German, and roitnen or runncn in Dutch, mean to curdle j this gives us the 

 true derivation of the word Runnet. 



