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of the ground in many parts of the Highlands, 

 and, being divided into fmall fplinters, are ufcd 

 by the inhabitants to burn inftead of candles. 

 At Loch-Broom^ in RofsPme, we obferved that 

 the fifhermen made ropes of the inner bark ; 

 but hard necelTity has taught the inhabitants of 

 Sweden, Lapland, and Kamfchatka, to convert 

 the fame into bread. To effea: this they, In the 

 Spring feafon, make choice of the tailed and 

 faireft trees, then ftripping off carefully the 

 outer bark, they collet the foft, white, fuccu- 

 lent interior bark, and dry it in the Ihade. 

 When they have occafion to ufe it, they firft 

 toaft it at the fire, then grind, and, after deep- 

 ing the flour in warm water, to take oft the 

 refinous tafle, they make it into thin cakes, 

 which are baked for ufe. On this flrange food 

 the poor inhabitants are fometimes conftrain'd to 

 live for a \N hole year-, and, we are told, thro' 

 cuftom, become at laft even fond of it. Lin- 

 naus remarks, that this fame bark-bread will 

 fatten fwine ; and humanity obliges us to wifh, 

 that men might never be reduced to the neccflity 

 of robbing them of fuch a food. 



The interior bark, of which the above-mention'd 

 bread is made, the Swedifo boys frequently petl 

 off the trees In the Spring, and eat raw with 

 greedy appetite. 



From the cones of this tree is prepared a diuretic 

 oil, like the oil of turpentine, and a refinous 



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