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tity, and with bread or other farinaceous matter, or it will disagree 

 with the stomach. 



BUTTERFLY. An insect well known, and much admired for 

 its beauty : it is bred from the caterpillar. The wings of the butterfly 

 are four in number, and though two of them be cut off, the animal 

 can fly with the two others remaining. If we observe the wing of a 

 butterfly with a good microscope, we shall perceive it studded over 

 with a variety of little grains of different dimensions and forms ; and 

 nothing can exceed the beautiful and regular arrangement of these 

 little substances. Like the tiles of a house, those of one rank are a 

 little covered by those which follow ; and they are of a great variety 

 of figures, some oval, some in the form of a heart, some triangular, 

 and some resembling a hand open ; yet the weight of the wing, 

 though it be covered over with these scales, is very little increased 

 thereby. 



CAAMINI. This is a name given by the Spaniards and others to 

 the finest sort of the Paraguay tea. It is the leaves of a shrub which 

 grows on the mountains of Maracaya, and is used in Chili and Peru 

 as tea is with us. The mountains, where the trees which produce 

 this valuable leaf grow naturally, are far from the inhabited parts of 

 Paraguay ; but the people of the place know so well the value and 

 use of it, that they constantly furnish themselves with great quantities 

 of it from the spot. They used to go out on these expeditions many 

 thousands together, and their country was left to the insults of their 

 enemies in the meantime, and many of them perished with the 

 fatigue. 



CABAL. A name given to a sort of drink made of dried raisins. 

 The manner in which the Portuguese make cabal is this ; they take 

 out the stones of about twenty pounds of raisins, and then bruising the 

 raisins a little, they put them into a barrel of white wine, in the 

 month of January or February, and let them stand till about Easter. 

 It is then very clear and rich, luscious and palatable to the taste. It 

 is recommended to stop coughs, and give strength to the stomach. 

 It is worth while to try the experiment with the same proportion of 

 raisins to the same quantity of our cider, which would probably prove 

 a fine drink. 



CABBAGE. The common cabbage is by far the most valuable, 

 both to man and to the beasts, by whose assistance he is able to make 

 the earth so fertile. It is also the most productive ; for it is believed 

 that an acre of ground will yield a greater weight of green vegetable 

 substance, and thus be more profitable to the farmer, in the shape of 

 cabbage, than in that of any other vegetable matter. It is very 

 abundantly produced by clay soils, which are unfit for turnips, and 

 the farmers who cultivated such soils will find it a vegetable worthy 

 of much attention. The cabbage furnishes a green fodder for cows 

 and sheep, which is at least as good as turnips or carrots, fattening 



