STUDY V. 289 



On the fubjed of this lafl vegetable, hear what 

 the accurate Corneille le Bruyn fays, in his Voyage 

 to Archangel*: *' During our refidence among 

 " them (the Samoiédes), they brought us. feveral 

 *' forts of turnips, of various colours, and ex- 

 '* tremely beautiful. Some of them were violet- 

 " coloured, like our plumbs, gray, white, yel- 

 " lovvifli, all of them ftreaked with red, like ver- 

 *' million, or the fineft laca, and as grateful to the 

 *' eye as a pink. I painted fome of them on paper 

 " in water-colours, and fent fome to Holland, in 

 " a box filled with dry fand, to one of my friends, 

 " who is fond of fuch curiofities. 1 carried thofe 

 *' which I had painted to Archangel, where no one 

 " would believe they were copied after Nature, 

 *' till I produced the turnips themfelves : a proof 

 '* that no great attention is paid there, to the 

 '* rareft and moft curious productions of Nature.'* 



I take thefe turnips to be of the radifli fort, the 

 bulb of which grows above ground. At leaft I 

 prefume fo, from the drawing itfelf of Corneille le 

 Bruyn, and from having feen fuch in Finland ; they 

 are in tafte fuperior to that of our colewort, and 

 have a flavour fimilar to the artichoke bottom. I 

 have produced thefe teftimonies of a Painter, and 

 that Painter a Dutchman, refpeding the beauty of 



* Vol. iii. page 21. 



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