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the seeds are said to afford, by crushing, oil in as great 

 quantity, and of equal quality. 



The market for butchers-meat here, is kept extremely 

 neat and clean; no offensive streams of blood are to be 

 seen, every thing of that sort being confined to the 

 si 1 ambles *. Each dealer in meat keeps a carpenter's 

 plane, with which he daily shaves the surface of the table 

 of his stall ; so that a stranger entering the market in the 

 morning, would be apt to think that all the tables were 

 new. The meat offered for sale is divided into such small 

 pieces, that an English housewife would search the market 

 in vain for what she would deem a respectable roast. There 

 is a degree of delicacy even, in this practice of minute divi- 

 sion ; the fragments presented at table never recalling the 

 idea of the part of the animal to which they belong. 

 . The foreign appearances have increased at Ghent. — 

 The small mirrors, which we observed placed angularly 

 at the sides of some windows in Bruges, are very ge- 

 neral here. Persons sitting near the windows thus see 

 all that passes in the street, or ascertain the visitant who 

 knocks at the door, without looking out.—Archery is the 

 favourite amusement of the men. Several imitations of 

 birds are placed at the top of a very long pole, placed up- 

 right, and the marksmen endeavour to dislodge these birds 

 with their arrows. Such popinjay poles are to be seen 

 both at Ostend and Bruges; but they are here more com- 

 mon. — In place of carts, the quays of the canals are 



• In the p;dinburgh poultry-market the gutter is often seen running with 

 blood, warm from the arteries of some unhappy pig, whose quivering screams 

 at the same time assail the ear. Even the agonized writhings of turkeys 

 and ducks ought not to l>e witnessed in a public market. As soon as space 

 ran be procured, we doubt not that this evil will be remedied by the public. 

 rpirited rulers of our northern capital. 



