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and be full of hills like molehils. The 

 people where they grow, are constrained to 

 digge them vp and cast them abroad like as 

 molehils vnto our soil : these haue neither 

 stalk, leaves, fibres, nor strings, annexed or 

 fastened vnto them, and for the most part are 

 of a reddish colour, but within of a whitish 

 yellow." " We call them in English," says 

 this author, " Spanish Fussebals." 



Evelyn noticed them when he was on the 

 Continent, in the year 1644, as if they were 

 then not known in this country. He says 

 in his diary, 30th September, amongst other 

 dainties which he had for supper at Vienne 

 in Dauphine, " was a dish of truffles, an 

 earth-nut found out by a hogg trained to it, 

 and for which those animals are sold at a 

 great price." 



Truffles were formerly called swine's bread, 

 as these animals are exceedingly fond of them, 

 and by their assistance the beds of truffles 

 were often discovered. 



In Italy, the usual method of finding truf- 

 fles, or subterraneous mushrooms, called by 

 the Italians Tartufoli, is by tying a cord to 

 the hind leg of a pig, and driving him, ob- 

 serving where he begins to root.* 



# Ray. 



