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Pigs, poultry, and other animals are kept on 

 board, and butchers accompany the troop. A 

 well-supplied boiler is at work night and day, in a 

 kitchen built on the raft. The dinner -hour is 

 announced by a basket stuck on a pole, at which 

 signal the pilots give the word of command, and 

 the workmen run from all quarters to receive their 

 rations. The consumption of provisions is enor- 

 mous ; forty or fifty thousand pounds of bread, 

 twenty thousand pounds of fresh meat, with a pro- 

 portionate quantity of butter, salt meat, vege- 

 tables, &c., are demolished in the voyage from 

 Andernach down to Holland."* 



A large number of insects are described by 

 Kollar which are destructive to the Fir-tribe, 

 some by eating off the foliage, others by using 

 the young shoots for their dwelling, others by 

 feeding on the bark and wood, and others by 

 attacking the roots of young trees. The most 

 mischievous are the Pine Lappet Moth {Bombyx 

 Pini\ the Black-arch Moth {Bomhyx monachd)^ 

 and the Pine Saw-fly {Tenthredo Pini), The 

 reader is referred to his '^Treatise on Insects" 

 for an account of these, the limits of the present 

 work not allowing even an enumeration of the 

 principal ones. A few only will be mentioned 

 under the head of the particular tree which each 

 infests. 



* " An Autumn near the Rhine." 



