USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



Now^ I have ahvays had a particular dislike to be 

 questioned; and this dislike has stuck to me 

 throughout the whole of my life. I thought that my 

 full accounts, published beforehand, especially as 

 I was assisted with so much indulgence and real 

 liberality by the editors of several of the news- 

 papers, would have prevented my being exposed 

 to showing what might be interpreted into ill-man- 

 ners towards the visitors of my field. I was mis- 

 taken in this ; and when I duly reflect on the 

 great curiosity that was excited, and the great 

 interest at the same time, I can by no means 

 blame the questioning that I happened now and 

 then to meet with ; and have only to express my 

 regret, if any one received a shorter answer, than 

 that which more leisure and more thought on 

 my part might have induced me to give. To 

 return, if the corn will make meat of all sorts to 

 be finally eaten by man ; and if it will give him 

 horses to convey him about ; and all these, with 

 infinitely less trouble, than he can obtain them 

 by the use of any other crop, what more does he 

 want ? But, it will not only do these things, but 

 give him a great variety of most excellent food, 

 the most convenient, and the most healthy that 

 can be found, to go, directly, into his own mouth 

 and down his own throat, without any interven- 

 tion, other than that of the culinary process. 

 There are a great variety of ways, designated by 



