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account, Providence has bountifully supplied all natural 

 soils with chalky or other absorbent particles. 



Olive-oil is esteemed good for the breast and lungs ; it 

 tempers the sharp choleric humours in the bowels, is 

 useful against all corrosive mineral poisons, as arsenic, 

 &c. ; opens the urinary passages ; and is good for the 

 stone and gravel. Olive-oil congeals at 38 of Fahrenheit. 



The wood of the olive-tree is used by cabinet-makers, 

 from its being beautifully veined, and admitting an ex- 

 cellent polish. 



These trees may be obtained from those Italian houses 

 which import orange-trees ; they require nearly the same 

 treatment ; but when they have taken good root, they may 

 be taken from the pots, and planted in a warm situation. 



