MONOECIA MONADELPHIA' S'^fJ 



of the ground in many parts of the Highlands, 

 and, being divided into fmall fplinters, are ufed 

 by the inhabitants to burn inftead of candies. 

 At Loch-Broom, in Rofs/Joire, we obfervcd that 

 the fifliermen made ropes of the inner baric ; 

 but hard necelTity has taught the inhabitants of 

 Sweden, Lapland, and Kamfchntka, to convert 

 the fame into bread. 'I'o efFcd this they, in the 

 Spring feafon, make choice of the tailed and 

 faireft trees, then ftripping off carefully the 

 outer bark, they colleft the foft, white, fuccu- 

 lent interior bark, and dry it in the fliadc. 

 When they have occahon to ufe it, they firll 

 toaft it at the fire, then grind, and, after (keep- 

 ing the flour in warm water, to take off the 

 refinous tafte, they make it into thin cakes, 

 which are baked for ufe. On this flran^e food 

 the poor inhabitants are lometimes conftrain'd to 

 live for a whole year-, and, we are told, thro' 

 cullom, become at lalt even fond jf it. L/Vv- 

 n^ius remarks, that this fame bark-bread wii! 

 fatten fvvine -, and humanity obliges us to wiOi, 

 that men niight never be reduced to the necelfity 

 of robbing them of fuch a food. 



The interior bark, of which the above-mentioned 

 bread is made, the SwediJJj boys frequently peel 

 off the trees In the Spring, and eat raw with 

 greedy appetite. 



From the cones of this tree is prepared a diuretic 

 oil, like the oil ot turpentine, and a refinou? 



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