554 



PRODUCTION 



Sect. XIX. 6, 4 



bably by tbat digeftive procefs, and their previous mafticatioii ia th 



mouth, minded with more animal 

 c^aflric, ai 



lable lymph 



the fal 



d pancreatic j 



ized nutriment than the for 

 tribute more to flren^then the fyft 



d may thus fupply a more animal- 

 ; and may on that account con- 



Of thefe feed 



d 



appears probable, that thofe, which contain the mofl flarch 



heat, afford the moft nourifliment, as they are believed to make 



the befl: bread 



4 



Th 



alburn 



or fap-wood, of mod trees in 



the 



w 



matter 



hence it is fo 



; 



months probably contains much nutritious 



foon deflroyed by fermentation or putrefadion when deprived^of life 



and by infeas, when it is deprived of its proteding bark 



crratinor or rafping, or pound 



Th 



matter might be obtained by 



it, and boiling the powder or faw-duft thus procured. The bark 

 of all thofe vegetables, which are armed with thorns or prickles, is be- 



lieved to 



much 



matter, which their armou 



defigned to proted ; as the inner barks of elm, holly, goofeberry 



whin or sorfe 



c> 



h nutritive m 



o 



thus the d 



Needwood Forefl: greedily peel 



bark from the branches of holly 



h are' cut from the fummits of thofe trees, where they h 



no 



prickles, as mentioned in B 



Gard 



Vol. II. note on Ilex 



And horfes are faid to be well nouriflied by gorfe, if the prickl 

 previoufly deflroyed by rolling a ftone over it, as 



the tanners bruife 



their oak- bark 



d fome horfes are faid to be fo fond of 



dfo 



wife, as to bruife young gorfe-bu(hes with their feet, and th 



them 



F 



faid to be 



th 



C 



and in other countries in times of fcarcity ; b 



f New Holland 



; their farinaceou 



\ 



m 



ft 



iucilaginous matter is included in ligneous fibres too hard for 

 ication, the method of cooking it is faid to confift in boiling the 

 , and then extrafting the fibres by hammering it to pieces. The 

 of white bryony, which grows to a great fize in our hedge-bot 



tomsj, 



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