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pearance would, no doubt, be very different. How- 

 ever the quantity of nutritive substance in his food 

 must be considerable, for him to suffice with so small 

 a modicum*. In the highlands of Bavaria the pea- 

 santry live better ; at all events they take a much 

 greater quantity of simple food than the poorer hus- 

 bandmen of the plain, and of this food good butter 

 forms an essential part. To this sufficiency of food, 

 and to the circumstance that by their position they 

 are free from the toils of an agricultural life, may 

 be attributed their healthier look, more developed 

 growth, and their appearance of youth while still 

 young in years. 



Above I have used the words "most excellent" 

 bread of Bavaria ; nor are they employed unad- 

 visedly, for indeed in no other country have I 

 eaten such bread : it is what we should call whole- 

 meal bread, and is a most palatable and nourishing 

 food. Bread as delicately white as a French roll 

 is of course to be had, but the other sort, slightly 

 brown in colour, is the staple food of every house- 

 hold. As the Egyptians found no water so sweet 

 as that of the Nile, so do I always return to the 

 bread of Bavaria with an increased relish. Every 



* Cabbage, when dried so as to bring it into a state in which 

 it can be compared with our other kinds of food (wheat, oats, beans, 

 etc.), is found to be richer in muscular matter than any other 

 crop we grow. Wheat contains only about twelve per cent., beans 

 twenty per cent., but cabbage contains from thirty to forty per cent, 

 of the so-called protein compounds. Edinburgh Review, No. 182, 

 p. 366. 



