What thefe Trubs are, neither the Ancients nor Mo- 
derns have clearly informed us,- feme will have theni 
Callojiiies, or Warts bred in the Earth : Others call them 
fubterraiaeous Mujhrooms. If you could ever find Vefti- 
gia or Marks of a Stalk, or of Fibres, or Capillameots 
about their outfides, t flioald be then almoft tempted to 
guefs, that they are the Produd of fome Bulbofe- or Tu« 
berofe Plant, perhaps zSatyrion or Orchis, or -(bnie other- 
Root of that numerous Tribe, many of which have a Se- 
minal Smell. 
I conje&ure that thefe Tuber a Term were found af- 
ter the late Thunder and Rains,* for fome of the Anci- 
ents call'd them Ceramua, to ' which Juvenal feems to 
allude, 5W. V. 
Pofl hum raduntur Tuber a y finer 
Tuncerit, & facient optatatonitrua c(enm 
Majores : tihi habe frument urn, Ailed ius intuit 
0 Libye : disjunge loves, dum tuber a mittas. 
They are mod tender in the Spring though after 
Showers and faltry Weather they may be plentifully 
found in the Autumn : the Wet fwellsthem, and Light- 
ning may difpofe them to (end forth their particular 
Scent fo alluring to the Swine. 
Ludovkus Romanus , Navigat. Lib. i. cap. 7. affirms, 
That Thirty Camels Load of thefe Truffles or Truls 
brought from Armenia and Afia Minor have been all fold 
at Bamafcus in two or three days. The manner of find- 
ing and rooting them up may be read in Mr. Rays Itine- 
rary of Italy, p. 403, 404. and in his Catal. Stirpium 
Exvt. at the end of his Travels, p. 109. 
I need not tell you the Ufes to which the Greeks and 
Romans ' apply'd thefe V egetable Bodies, nor how they 
are drefs'd and eaten at this day. Pliny, Martial, Plu- 
tarch, Athenms, Galen, Apicius, &c. may be confulted 
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