236 On coarse Flour ^ ^c. 



creased.* General Pulaski had a favorite charger^ to 

 whom he often gave bread: which the animal seemed 

 to enjoy far beyond any other food. In Holland it is a 

 common practice to give horses rye breads or baked 

 provender. — The late sheriff Penrose, who had a fine 

 team of working horses, was in the habit of buying 

 condemned ship bread, as the most nutritious, and 

 cheapest horse feed. He said that others knew, and 

 profited by its advantages. 



* Kowatch spoke a barbarous Latm, which he said was 

 the common language of parts of the north of Europe ; and 

 particularly of Hungary or Bohemia, in one of which districts 

 of that region, he was bom. He wrote the Latin tolerably 

 pure ; but spoke with an accentuation very different from 

 that to which we are accustomed : so that I with difficulty 

 understood his conversation. He spoke German and some 

 French; both tinctured with his Hungarian accent. He 

 thought our pronunciation vitiated, and asked me whe- 

 ther we ought not to yield to them, who had, from the time 

 of the Romans, spoke Latin as a vernacular tongue ? We, he 

 said, derived our pronunciation from those, among whom 

 it was a dead language- 



