410 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO \6QQ. 



much resembled camel's flesh in taste, and that is the nearest to beef of any 

 thing I know. 



All things taken in game, as hawking, hunting, and fowling, are lawful for 

 them to eat, if they take it before it be dead, so that they can have time to cut 

 its throat, and say, Bismiillahe ; or if he is known to be an expert man at the 

 game, and says those words before he lets the hawk take its flight, lets slip the 

 greyhound, or fires his gun, it is lawful. In short, every thing, except swine's 

 flesh, and what dies of itself, they have liberty to eat, and may sell it. They 

 eat snails boiled with salt, and praise their vvholesomeness. Fish of all sorts are 

 lawful. In Taflilet and Dra most of their food is dates : there are ten or a 

 dozen sorts. They have good capons all the country over ; no turkeys, ducks, 

 nor geese, but wild, and those they have of two sorts : duck, teil, and mallard, 

 curlews, plovers, snipes, oxbirds, pipers, a sort of black crow, with a bald 

 pate and long crooked bill, is good meat ; and a hundred other sorts of fowls. 

 Partridges in Suse commonly roost on trees, foxes being so numerous would 

 otherwise destroy them. The foxes are eaten if fat. They have many kinds of 

 fruits and sweet-meats, as pumpkins, macaroons, almonds, raisins, dates, figs, 

 excellent melons, and water melons, pomegranates, apples, pears, apricots, 

 peaches, mulberries, plums, and damascens, cherries, grapes of many kinds, 

 and very good, and if they would assist nature they might have every thing m 

 perfection. 



Their salleting is luttuce, endive, carduus, parsley, apium, and other sweet 

 herbs, onions, cucumbers, radishes, fumatas, or love apples, all which they 

 will cut, and put oil, vinegar, and salt, with some red pepper ; this sallet they 

 eat with bread. When the Moors have feasted, every one washes his hands 

 and mouth, thanks God, and blesses the hosts and entertainers from whom 

 they had it ; they then talk a little, or tell some story, and lie down to rest. 



Account of /.he Third Folume of Dr. JValliss Opera Maihematica, folio, Oxford, 



i6gg. N° 234, p. 259. 



The first two volumes were noticed in N° 2l6. (page 29 of this fourth volume.) 

 Much of the present voluine is employed in preserving and restoring several 

 ancient Greek authors, who were in danger of being lost. Foi' which work the 

 doctor is fitted, not only by his excellent knowledge in mathematics, accurate- 

 ness in the languages, and great industry in collating manuscript copies ; but 

 also, by what is peculiar to him, his art and practice in deciphering, which en- 

 ables him to make sagacious conjectures, supplements, and emendations, which 

 must often be an editor's business, and which we so justly admire in him. 



He b«';p"ins with Ptolemy's Harmonics, the most considerable of all the Greek 



