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instantly from the eating of kidney-beans, cooked 

 in their ripe and dry state. There is nothing of 

 this sort belonging to the produce of the corn- 

 plant; and the samp is a great deal more nutritious 

 as well as more wholesome, than pea-porridge. 

 When samp is to be made, meat must be boiled 

 with the cracked corn; audit must be well boiled. 

 American Pork is the meat in general; but 

 the dish might be made delightful to the most 

 delicate palate, by boiling the skinned corn with 

 a scrag of mutton, or a piece of lean beef; far 

 preferable to any thing that we have put upon 

 the best tables under the name of pea-soup ; 

 though the pease be split, and though the soup 

 be strained ; for straining may take place equally 

 well in the case with Samp, which is corn-soup 

 instead of pea-soup. There must be no skins 

 m the Samp, which is not to be merely cracked, 

 but the skins beaten off in the same manner 

 as the Dutch and the Americans beat the shells 

 off from buck-wheat, and as the people in the 

 North of England and in Scotland beat off the 

 shells of oats before they are ground into oat- 

 meal. I saw a windmill in Lancashire, in which 

 I was surprised to see great quantities of the 

 piths of oats cleared from the shell. What 

 they call pearl barley is, I suppose, prepared by 

 the same sort of process. I was first enlightened ; 



