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tumes, and fcrophulous complaints are reckoned 

 among them. Linnatis obferves that its flefh is 

 wholefome food for athletic confbitutions, or thofe 

 that ule much exercifej but bad for fuch as lead a 

 fedentary life: it is though of mod univerfal ufe, 

 and furnifnes numberlefs materials for epicurifm, 

 among which brawn is a kind peculiar to Eng- 

 land'^. The flefh of the hog is an article of the 

 firft importance to a naval and commercial nation, 

 for it takes fait better than any other kind, and 

 confequently is capable of being preferved longer. 

 The lard is of great ufe in medicine, being an 

 ingredient in various forts of plaifters, either pure, 

 or in the form of pomatum -, and the bridles are 

 formed into brufhes of feveral kinds. 



This animal has been applied to an ufe in this 

 ifland, which feems pQCulhr to Minorca and the part 

 of Murray which lies between the Spey and Elgin. It 

 has been there converted into a bead of draught ; 

 for I have been alTured by a minifter of that coun- 

 try, eye witnefs to the fadl, that he had on his firft 

 coming into his parifli feen a cow, a fow, and two 

 'ifrogues (young horfes) yoked together, and draw- 

 ing a plough in a light fandy foil ; and that the 

 fow was the beil drawer of the four. In Minorca 

 the afs and the hog are common help- mates, and 

 are yoked together in order to turn up the land. 



The wild-boar was formerly a native of our coun- 



* fJolUngJhed Defer, Brit. 109. 



try, 



