34 __ hterary intélligencé, Sept. 4 
and by degrees; so that he prefers to continue his an- 
cient practice of extracting an excellent eating oil from mus- 
stard seed, which answers particulurly well for salads, 
&e. 
There is again, I acknowledge, something new to me 
in the fact of extracting an eating oi/ from mustard seed ; 
and we see what the invention of man will lead to, when 
impelled to search for a ne¢efsary article of food in warm 
climates, where the olive is. wanting, but where the 
long fasts of the Greek church make ez/ an efsential ob- 
ject of meagre diet. 
I fhall now, finifh with observing, that although the 
cultivation of the sesamum ‘may not answer the purpose 
of a private gentleman; especially when he is already 
in pofsefsion of something of the kind that answers his 
purpose ; still if it fhould be found an article of profit in 
our islands where negroes are kept, it may there pofsibly 
become an object of commerce with the Spaniards and 
French ; if the last are still religious enough to ea: fifh © 
and oil in lent: A propos to /ent, what do the Newfound- 
land fifhers say to the new Gallic religion, and that 
which their propagande are preaching to other catholic 
nations? Are they not afraid that they might take the 
whimof eating roast beef like yourselves on meagre days ; 
and leave the poor persecuted fith in the sea, from a new 
refinement of philanthropy. - 
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