SAMPHIRE. ( 2()[) 



into a ley, and boiled with oil, make the best 

 soap. We learn from the ancients that the 

 ashes of this plant were thought good to con- 

 sume proud flesh, and to cleanse the skin 

 from scorbutic eruptions. They also burnt 

 this herb with a belief that the smell of the 

 smoke drove away serpents. 



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