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flour; but the Professor found fifteen pounds of birch-wood 

 flour, with three pounds of sour wheat-leaven, and two pounds 

 of wheat-flour, mixed up with eight measures of new milk, yield- 

 ed thirty-six pounds of very good bread. The learned Professor 

 tried the nutrilious properties of wood-flour, in the first instance, 

 upon a young dog ; afterwards he fed two pigs upon it ; and 

 then, taking courage from the success of the experiment, he at- 

 tacked it himself. His family party, he says, ate it in the form 

 of gruel or soup, dumphngs and pancakes, all made with as little 

 of any other ingredient as possible : and found them palatable, 

 and quite wholesome. Are we, then, instead of looking upon a 

 human being stretched upon a bare plank, as the picture of ex- 

 treme want and wretchedness, to regard him as reposing in the 

 lap of abundance, and consider henceforth, the common phrase, 

 " bed and board," as compounded of synonymous terms ?— 

 Quarterly Review, November 1834. 



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24. Extent and Population of Great Britain and her Colonies. 



From the Qtuirlerly Journal of Agriculture, No. XXVII. p. 461. 



