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" Marseilles. — Vegetables, bread, farinaceous substances made into 

 soup, meat-soup or bouillie probably once a-week. 



" Piedmont. — No meat, little wine, twice as much maize as wheat- 

 flour. 



"Portugal. — Salt-fish, vegetable-soup, with oil or lard, maize- 

 bread. 



" The Azores. — Maize -bread, vegetables, potatoes, and fruit, meat 

 seldom, fish when abundant. 



" Greece ; Patras. — Maize or wheaten bread, olives, pulse, vegeta- 

 bles, salt-fish, meat occasionally. 



"European Turkey. — Bread, rice, greens, dried beans and peas, 

 olives and onions, meat about once a-week. 



" Malta (from a communication) . — Barley -bread, cheese, carob, or 

 other beans, and soup of maize or millet with herbs, when in employ, 

 when out of employ, a little bread and soup only." 



With the view of estimating the relation between the consump- 

 tion of food, and the necessary outlay, it seems desirable to add the 

 following Table shewing the average Bazar prices for each kind of 

 food during the year of observation in Eajshahye. 



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