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a gourmand of sufficient taste and calibre, 

 to rival those of ancient Rome, in the size 

 of their goose livers. I have thence, 

 never fed my geese during sixteen days, 

 with a paste of Turkey figs, stamped and 

 beaten up with cream, in order to bring 

 their livers upon the table, each the weight 

 of three or four pounds ! I modestly leave 

 such practices to princes, ministers, and 

 men in high place. It may be added, that 

 equal quantities of the meal of rye and 

 PEASE, mixed with skimmed milk, form an 

 excellent feeding article for geese and 

 ducks. 



The Spanish geese used to be preferred, 

 but I have had no experience of them. 

 Our flock, whilst we resided in Middlesex, 

 in the year 1788, were esteemed the finest 

 in the vicinity ; the breed of them had 

 been procured for us, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Bungay, in Suffolk, by Goff the 

 dealer, already spoken of. At present 

 (1815), the Embden geese are in the high- 

 est esteem. They are all white, male and 

 female, and of a superior, indeed very un- 



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