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Mr. L. says, that the little chick pea forms a 

 considerable part of the food of the poor in Por- 

 tugal ; and even common lupines, when soaked 

 in running water to destroy their bitterness, are 

 boiled, and sold in the market-place, and the 

 people eat them out of their pockets. They are 

 also used by the poor in Italy, but generally 

 along with chesnuts, which are bruised and 

 made into a sort of cake. 



In ascending the Apennines, Mr. Lumley 

 came to a mountain village, of very singular 

 appearance ; it gave him more the idea of a 

 collection of huts in some savage country ; no 

 streets, no gardens, no appearance of cultivation, 

 except a few great chesnut trees, that united 

 their branches over the miserable houses. The 

 people have large flocks of goats and sheep, 

 whose milk supplies them with cheese, and 

 whose wool is spun by the women in winter, and 

 manufactured into a kind of stuff. 



Most of the inhabitants of the Apennines 

 depend on chesnuts, pigeons, bees, and milk, for 

 their food ; and like the natives of Auvergne, 

 they make all their own furniture and clothes. 

 They earn, however, a good deal by going every 

 year to work, for the harvest season, in Lom- 

 bardy and Tuscany, and the money they gain 

 there, they bring carefully home. 



The summer pastures, for the cattle of the rich 

 plains of Tuscany, extend along the brow of the 



