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Q. Did you also make a microscopical examination on the 16th? — A. I did. 
Mr. Justice B'-ackburx : Nothing was done as 1 understand by you in the 
interval ? — A. No, my Lord. 
Mr. Field : What was it that you analysed and examined on the 16th of 
July ? — A. On the 16th of July 1 re-examined the same cake in the bag, and 
also part of the whole cake. 
Q. Was that of the whole cake that came from Airmyn Pastures ? — A. I 
' believe so. 
Q. Have you got your microscopical examination that you then made ? — 
A. Yes, I have got here a copy. 
[The reading of the copy was objected to.] 
Mr. Field : Can you tell me from your memory what it was that the cake 
icontained? — A. I know from memory it contained bran, broken wheat, barley 
husks, rice husks and rye ; the seed of the Loliu/m temulentum, or drunken 
darnel, wild mustard, and CJienojwdium seeds. 
Mr. Justice Blackburn : What is the English name of that. 
Mr. Seymour : I think it is Goose Foot. 
The Witness : I believe it is so. Also Dodder, Polygonum seed — 
Mr. Justice Blackburn: What is that? — A. Bind-weed and knot-grass, 
ind also a few cotton husks and cocoa-nut husks. 
Mr. Seymour : Do you mean the word " few " to apply also to the cocoa-nut 
husks ? — A. Only a few of both. 
Mr. Field : And other seeds besides ? — A. Other seeds besides, grass seeds 
and clover. 
I Q. Did you examine the cake for the purjjose of finding these impurities 
'together with Professor Way ? — A. Yes, I did. I had the notes with me 
'in Scotland, but, unfortunately, I find that I did not put them in my carpet- 
bag ; I brought them all away from London. 
I Q. Have you made any further examination than those two that you have 
told us of on the 16th of July and in February and March? — Yes. 
Q. When? — A. A few days afterwards, I believe it was on the 18tli 
of July. 
Q. Was that by yourself, or in company with anybody else. — A. By 
' myself. 
Q. Did you find any difference then ; have you got the notes of that here ? — 
A. I did not take any notes at the time. 
Q. Did you find any difference then ? — A. No. 
Q. Have you made any other examination besides those ? — A. I examined 
the cake again. 
' When?— Last Tuesday. 
Q. Did you make any notes of the examination then — A. No, I did not 
make any notes. 
Q. I am now going to ask you about what is called the " Sancton cake." ' 
i When did you examine that? — A. I examined that also last Tuesday. 
Q. Have you brought the notes of your examination of that? — A. I did not 
take any notes of that, because it was confirmatory of the other. 
' Q. When you examined the Sancton cake were you alone, or with others. — 
A. Alone. 
Q. When was it you examined the Sancton cake? — A. Last Tuesday. 
Q. And I understand you to say the result was the same as the others ? — 
A. Yes, it was substantially the same cake. 
Mr. Field : From these examinations your Report on the 2nd of March has 
been made. You adhere to what you say in that Eeport in your judgment as 
to the composition of this cake ? — .^1. Y''es. 
