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nefs of water, and makes It more agreeable both to the tafte and to 

 the ftomach. But the quantity of wine mixed with water fhould 

 be fmall, not above a third or a fourth of the water if the wine be 

 flrong : And if wine cannot be got, I think the Egyptian drink, 

 Beer, is neither an unwholefome nor an unpleafant drink ; but it 

 fhould be fmall beer, which, if it be good, is, I think, the beft of all 

 malt liquors. And thus far as to his drink I think a man may comply 

 with the common fafliion of living. If he has a mind to carry 

 his compliance with that fafhion further, fo as to eat flefh or fifh, 

 it fliould be in great moderation : And he fhould always eat 

 flefh with vegetables, fo as to ufe the flefh for the purpofe only, 

 as I have faid elfewhere, of giving them a relifli ; and the 

 more vegetables he eats with his flefh, fo much the better. In 

 this refped Scotch broth I hold to be the beft way of eating flefh ; 

 for with the juice of beef or mutton, which is boiled in the broth, 

 you eat barley, turnips, carrots, and onions, to which you may 

 add alfo greens. And therefore I hold that this broth is the beft 

 way of eating flefh, much better than in/oup : For in foup you have 

 the juice of the flefh ; and if it be what is commonly called Jlrong 

 foup^ that is ftrong of the flefh, you eat in it more flefh, than when 

 you eat flefh boiled or roafted. Your fifh alfo will be much the better 

 and more wholeforae, if you eat them with vegetables likewife. 



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