IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



peynal gallon ;" and to be brief (for a volume like 

 this would not suffice for the whole), it can as- 

 certain to a nicety how many square inches and 

 quarters and eighths of inches of paper, will pre- 

 vent that paper from receiving matter of a ten- 

 dency to bring the Collective into contempt 3 and 

 to ascertain, with equal precision, how many 

 farthings (as the price of a printed paper) are 

 required to prevent it from being bought and 

 read, in case of failure in the efficacy of the just- 

 mentioned geometrical precaution ! " In every 

 thing equally wise ;" but if any one (and I hope 

 some one loill) were to make a collection, and a 

 record, of the instances of it sat once " omnipo- 

 tent" and all-searching and all-touching at- 

 tributes ; its surprising knowledge in the affair of 

 mill-stones, flour, meal, pollard, bran, sieves, 

 bolting-cloths, yeast, leaven, sponges, fermenta- 

 tions, dough, and crust and crumb, will not, the 

 reader may be assured, be the least instructive, 

 and especially the least entertaining ; and, as I 

 observed before, this would never have been eli- 

 cited had corn been generally grown in England, 

 or had the uses of it been generally known 

 amongst us. 



161. Bread, This, from the almost universal 

 use of it, is generally looked upon as the " staff 

 o/life/' as it is called in the Scriptures 3 but 

 while its real goodness, its convenient form, and 



