400 Miscellanies. 
longer time to the action of cold water, which is easily done by en- 
closing them in a strong sack, which they only half fill, and beating 
the sack with a stick, or treading it with the feet in a rivulet. ‘The 
whole is then to be completely dried in the sun, or by fire, and re- 
peatedly ground in a flour-mill. The ground wood is next baked 
into small flat cakes, with water, rendered slightly mucilaginous by 
the addition of some decoction of linseed, mallow stalks and leaves, 
lime-tree bark, or any other such substance. Professor Autenrieth 
prefers marsh-mallow roots, of which one ounce renders eighteen 
quarts of water sufficiently mucilaginous, and these serve to form four 
pounds and a half of wood-flour into cakes. These cakes are baked 
until they are brown on the surface. After this, they are broken to 
pieces, and again ground, until the flour will pass through a fine bolt- 
ing cloth, and upon the fineness of the flour does its fitness to make 
bread depend, ‘The flour of a hard wood such as beech, requires the 
process of baking and grinding to be repeated. Wood-flour does not 
ferment so readily as wheaten-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, yielded thirty-six pounds of very good bread. 'The learned 
Professor tried the nutritious 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 attack- 
ed it himself. His family party, he says, ate it in the form of gruel 
or soup, dumplings and pancakes, all made with as little of any other 
ingredient as possible : and found them palatable, and quite whole- 
some. Are we, then, instead of looking upon a human being stretch- 
ed upon a bare plank, as the picture of extreme want and wretched- 
ness, to regard him as reposing in the lap of abundance, and consid- 
er henceforth, the common phrase, “‘ bed and board,”’ as compound- 
ed of synonymous terms ?— Quarterly Review, November, 1834. 
For Sare—The Cabinet of Minerals of the late Dr. Young, of eneepey 
ew York.—This collection was selected with great care, by Dr. Young, and em 
braces the rare and beautiful productions of Orange County, N. Y. and Sussex 
N.J. Its erystals of = oie Corundum, Franklinite, Brucite, Troostite, Maes: 
ite, Hornblende, Bronzite, Idocrase, &c. would be an invaluable acquisition to any 
public cabinet; it has been generally priascibeed by PRR to be one of the 
select and beautiful collections, ever formed in this cou 
