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 frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with 



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Oil. 



Pliny informs us, that in the 500th year of 

 the city, when Appius Claudius and L. Junius 

 were consuls together, a pound of oil was sold 

 for twelve ases ; but that in the year 680, ten 

 pounds of oil sold for one as, and that, in 

 twenty-two years after that time, Italy was 

 able to furnish the provinces with oil; and it 

 was much used at their baths, having, as they 

 supposed, the property of warming the body, 

 and defending it against the cold. 



The best olive-oil at present is obtained 

 from Provence. 



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. 



The wood of the olive-tree is used by cabi- 

 net-makers, from it's being beautifully veined, 

 and admitting an excellent polish. 



