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of a putrescent tendency. The flesh of the 

 tame goose is more tender tiian that of 

 the wild, but generally, it is a diet best 

 adapted to good stomachs and powerfrd 

 digestion, and should be sparingly used by 

 the sedentary and weak, or by persons 

 subject to cutaneous diseases. 



The fat, or grease of the goose, is more 

 subtle, penetrating, and resolvent, than the 

 lard of swine, and is an excellent article to 

 be reserved for domestic use, in various 

 cases. Sportsmen of the old school held 

 the opinion, extraordinary as it may now 

 seem, that when a kennel of hounds shew 

 symptoms of rabies, or madness, the best 

 prophylactic remedy, is to keep a consider- 

 able flock of geese in it, for a length of 

 time; and the late Dr. James, exceedingly 

 attached to dogs, incHned to give a de- 

 gree of credit to this presumed remedy, 

 which if real, must consist in the saline 

 and penetrative qualities of the anserine 

 excrement. 



The Swan. The cygnet, or young swan 

 only, is reckoned eatable, aKd that after a 



