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Mr. Justice Blackbuks : Eead your actual note as you took it down ? — A. 
I have simply got here " wheat," and after that " mouldy wheat." 
Mr. Setmoub : About the quantity ? — A. I cannot speak of the quantity. 
Q. Then you have no memorandum made of the quantity ? — A. Xot of the 
quantity ; but I have a distinct recollection, because it is only a day or two 
ago that I made the examtnation- 
Q. When you say " fragments of wheat " do you mean fragments of grains 
' of wheat ? — A. Fragments of grains. 
Q. How many fragments of how many grains do you think you saw ? — A. 
I should say in about an ounce of the cake I saw perhaps seven or eight of 
those fragments. 
Q. With the naked eye or the microscope ? — A. Partly by the naked eye, 
and partly by the microscope. 
Mr. Justice Blackburs : When you mention those fragments are you 
speaking of mouldy wheat ? — A. Xot now, my Lord. 
Mr. tETMOOB : I asked you with regard to the mouldy wheat ? — A. I found 
. ry much smaller number of pieces of mouldy wheat. 
J. You found seven grains partly with the naked eye, and partly with the 
roscope, that were not mouldy ? — A. Yes. 
And you found still fewer that you say might have been mouldy ? — A, 
Yes, I examined them and found that they were mouldy. 
Q. You found that they were mouldy under the microscope ? — A. Under 
microscope. 
Q. But I suppose a particle of mould which would surround such a smalt 
particle of microscopically discovered wheat might be accounted for by 
weather, or even by sending up from the country, and a thousand possible 
ways ? — A. It might be accounted for in a thousand ways. 
Q. Atmospheric changes, sending up by train in guano bags, and so on. 
Are you able to make any estimate of the proportion of husks found in the 
general body of the samples, leaving out the bran ; for I do not dispute that; 
there was bran in this cake, taking other things — wheat husks, and rice 
husks ? — A. I could not form a notion. 
Q. Were you able at all to arrive at anything like a fraction of the propor- 
tion? — A. 1 could not name the number. 
Q. Or form an estimate ? — A. So. 
I Q. Have you got the specimens here ? Because you speak of the optical 
effect ? — A. I have got the si>ecimens of the cake received. 
Mr. Justice Blackbukx : You say your eye discovered certain things ? — A. 
I could see the things that were in it. 
Q. I mean that which your eye saw ? — A. There is one sample. 
0- I suppose you would agree with Professor Voelcker that the dodder, 
millet, and charlock, in greater or less proportions, may be found in pure 
Linseed ? — A. Yes, that is to say, unscreened linseed. 
Se-examined by Mr. Field. 
Q. You found this in the condition of seeds. What you found or saw 
there were certain seeds or parts of seeds ? — A. Yes. 
Q. And there may be more crushed up together with the rest, which you 
uld not be able to see ? — A. There may be fragments that would not be 
-elected except by the microscope. 
Q. And crushed up with the cake they would not be seen ? — A. Not by 
ie naked eye. 
Mr. Field : I had better mark this " D." 
Mr. Setmoub : Will you look at this specimen of the cake (handing some 
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