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In this review of the alteration, which this part 

 of the culinary fyftem has undergone, the author, 

 iinder each article, gives a comparative fl^etch of 

 the qualities of each, and fhews the fuperiority of 

 the modern fubftitute : to mention fome of the 

 moft material ; 



The Acorns and Nuts of the primitive days have 

 given way to all the variety of fweeter farinaceous 

 feeds and roots. 



To the Malvaceous tribe of plants, fo much ufed 

 by the Greeks and Romans^ hath fucceeded the 

 more grateful Spinach, And to the Blite^ the Gar-- 

 den Orach. 



The rough Borage is fupplanted by the acefcent 

 Sorrel \ and Afparagtis has banifhed a number of 

 roots, recorded by the Roman writers under the 

 name of Bulhs^ though at this day it is not eafy to 

 determine the feveral fpecies. 



Our author, however, thinks that the Parfnip 

 has undefervedly ufurped the place of the SkirreL 



The Bean of the antients, improperly fo called, 

 being the roots as well as other parts of the Nym- 

 fh^ea Nelumbo^ Sp. PI. 730, or Water Lilly, 

 is fuperfeded by the Kidney-bean. 



The Garden Rocket^ ( Brajica Eruc^^ Sp. PI. 932.) 

 eaten with, and as an antidote againft, the chilling 

 Lettuce^ is baniflied by the more agreeable Crefs^ 

 iand 'Tarragon, The Apium by the meliorated Cel- 

 Jery^ the Pompion^ and others of the Cucurbit aceou^ 

 tribe, by the Melon j and the Sumach Berries by the 

 fragrant Nutmeg, 



The Silphium^ or Succus Cyrenaicus^ which the 

 Romans purchafed from perjia and fydi^y^ at a great 



price^ 



