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whole luxurious inhabitants have articles of 
food procured for them from every quarter of 
the world, and can thence form but faint 
ideas of the neceffitous fituation under which 
many of the inhabitants of the globe exift, 
and in comparifon of whom our pooreft cot- 
tagers may be confidered in a ftate of eafe. 
In the rigorous and unfertile climates of 
Sweden, Lapland, and Kamfch atka, that ne- 
ceffity obliges the inhabitants to make ufe of 
the inner bark of the pinus fylveftris (fcotch 
fir) for food. In the fpring feafon they 
choofe the faireft and talleit trees, and, ftrip- 
ping off the outer bark, they colled the foft 
white fucculent interior bark, and dry it in 
the fhade. When they have occafion to ufe 
it,, they firft roaft it at the fire, then grind it, 
and after fteeping the flour in warm water to 
take off the refmous tafte, they make it into 
thin cakes, which are baked for ufe. The 
poor inhabitants are fometimes conftrained to 
live upon this food for a whole year, and are 
faid to be fond of it; and it fhould be 
nutritive, as Linneus afferts that it fattens 
fwine. Nor ought we alone to eftimate the 
vegetable tribes by the ufe to be derived from 
them to the human fpecies. The fungufes, 
w T hich 
