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fry them in fresh butter, a delicate : How we here 

 use them in stew'd-meats, and beatille-pies, our 

 French-cooks teach us ; and this is in truth the very 

 best use of their fruit, and very commendable ; for it 

 is found that the eating of them raw, or in bread (as 

 they do much about Limosin) is apt to swell the 

 belly, though without any other inconvenience that 

 I can learn, and yet some condemn them as dangerous 

 for such as are subject to the gravel in the kidneys, 

 and however cook'd and prepar'd, flatulent, offensive 

 to the head and stomach, and those who are subject 

 to the cholick. The best way to preserve them, is 

 to keep them in earthen vessels in a cold place ; some 

 lay them in a smoke-loft, others in dry barly-straw, 

 others in sand, 6?c. The leaves of the chesnut-tree 

 make very wholsom mattresses to lie on, and they are 

 good littier for cattel : But those leafy-beds, for the 

 crackling noise they make when one turns upon them, 

 the French call licts de Parliament : Lastly, the flower 

 of chesnuts made into an electuary, and eaten with 

 hony fasting, is an approved remedy against spitting 

 blood, and the cough ; and a decoction of the rind 

 of the tree, tinctures hair of a golden colour, esteem'd 

 a beauty in some countries : Other species, v. Ray, 

 Dendrolog. T. in, Gfc. 



