Crass I. H oO G. 
tumes, and fcrophulous complaints are reckoned 
among them. Linneus obferves that its flefh is 
wholefome food for athletic conftitutions, or thofe 
that ufe much exercife; but bad for fuch as lead a 
fedentary life: it is though of moft univerfal ufe, 
and furnifhes numberlefs materials for epicurifm, 
among which brawn is a kind peculiar to  Eng- 
land*. The fleth of the hog is an article of the 
firft importance to a naval and commerciai nation, 
for it takes falt better than any other kind, and 
confequently is capable of being preferved longer. 
The lard is of great ufe in medicine, being an 
ingredient in various forts of plaifters, either pure, 
or in the form of pomatum; and the briftles are 
formed into bruthes of feveral kinds. 
This animal has been applied to an ufe in this 
ifland, which feems peculiar to Minorca and the part 
of Murray which lies between the Spey and Elgin. It 
has been there converted into a beaft of draught; 
for I have been affured by a minifter of that coun- 
try, eye witnefs to the fact, that he had on his firft 
coming into his parifh feen a cow, a fow, and two 
Trogues (young horfes) yoked together, and draw- 
ing a plough in a light fandy foil; and that the 
fow was the beit drawer of the four. In Minorca 
the afs.and the hog are common help-mates, and 
are yoked together in order to turn up the land. 
The wild-boar was formerly a native of our coun- 
* Holling focd Defer, Brit. 109. 
try, 
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