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" Hayti. — Plantains, sweet-potatoes, and other vegetables. 



" Norway. — Herrings, oatmeal porridge, potatoes, coarse oatmeal 

 bread, bacon and salt-beef perhaps twice a week, fish on the sea and 

 river. Brandy in general nse. 



" Sweden. — In the south, potatoes and salt fish ; in the north, por- 

 ridge and rye bread. 



" Russia (general return) . —Eye-bread, buck- wheat, and sour cab- 

 bage, soap seasoned with salt and lard. 



" Denmark, Copenhagen. — Eye-bread, inferior coffee, cheese and 

 butter. 



" JElsinore. — Eye-bread, groats, potatoes, coffee, butter, cheese and 

 milk. 



" Hanseatic Towns, Lubeck. — Eye-bread and potatoes, bacon seldom, 

 peas-porridge, groats, cheap fish. 



" Bremen. — Potatoes, beans, buck-wheat, groats, rye-bread, meat 

 about twice a-week. 



" Mecklenburg . — Good sound food, occasionally meat. 



" Danzig. — Chiefly rye-bread and potatoes, meat once or twice 

 weekly. 



" Wurtemberg. — Soup, potatoes, bread, meat once or twice a-week. 



" Franlcfort. — Soup, potatoes, vegetables, bread, coffee, and beer 

 daily, meat on one or two days. 



" .Holland (general return).— Eye-bread, cheese, potatoes, vegeta- 

 bles, beans and pork, butter-milk, buck-wheat, meal, &c. 



" Belgium, Boom. — Bread, potatoes, and milk. 



" Ostend. — Potatoes and bread in the towns ; in the country a little 

 butter, vegetables, and sometimes a piece of pork. 



" Goesbek. — Eye-bread, cheese, butter or fat bacon, vegetables, 

 coffee, and weak beer. 



" France. Havre. — Bread, vegetables, cider, very rarely animal 

 food ; coffee and treacle are also used. 



" Brittany. — Buck-wheat, barley-bread, potatoes, cabbages, and 

 about 6ft>s of pork weekly. 



" La Loire Lnfericure. — Bread and vegetables, bacon or other 

 meat now and then. 



" Bordeaux. — Eye-bread, millet-soup, Indian-corn, sometimes salt 

 provisions, butchers' meat very rarely. 



