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near a foot in length, and five or fix 

 inches in circumference. This root is 

 grated on large copper graters, into 

 coarfe meal, from which its juice is fe- 

 parated by expreffion. This meal is then 

 put on large plates of iron, placed over 

 a flow fire, and is formed into circular 

 cakes of different magnitude, and from 

 one to four lines in thicknefs ; on thefe 

 plates it is baked, until the furface be- 

 comes brown, and will then keep fweer, 

 and wholefome, for many months. But 

 notwithstanding this is the ufual bread 

 every where on this Coaft, yet every 

 part of the root from which it is made, 

 is a fpeedy and fatal poifon, of the cold 

 kind, caufing, when internally taken, 

 violent fpafrns, a tumefaftion of the 

 abdomen, and a fpeedy celfation of all 

 the vital functions. The aqueous part 

 is exprefied, not becaufe it is more 

 poifonous than the farinaceous fubftance, 



but 



