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pose nearly, also is the treatise of Laurentius, de convivim ve- 
terum .* nor could I omit the learned remarks of Hugo Freidwall, 
de sanitate tuenda , who treats much of ancient food : Pignorius, 
de servis , or waiters at table, wherein of the sectores or carvers, 
very necessary to be introduced in our day; wherein Tripherius 
read lectures, having various dishes made in wood, dissected ac- 
cording to the best rules of carving : Musonii philosophi, de laxu 
Gr decorum , in quo de helluonibus , de bibacibus , £i7c. concerning 
which, unless this philosopher were tolerably well skilled in the 
practice, he was not well qualified to write ; as Harry Fielding 
shews at length in his history of Tom Jones. Then, had I to run 
over the pages of Laurentius, de Prandio et Ccena veterum ; the 
blockhead thinking, I suppose, the Jentaculum, and the Commessa- 
tio, or relish after supper, of no consequence. 
After this, I had to consult Meibomius, de Cerevisiis veterum, 
and Possidonius in Strabo on the smoking of cegars among the 
Mysian Scythse. Strab. L. 7. ed. Casaub. Smoking and ale- 
drinking being naturally companions. 
Nor should I have omitted the Hylophagi ; or the Spermatop- 
hagi noticed by Diodorus Siculus, L. 3. ch. 7. which would of 
course draw after it, an investigation of the Chinese spermatology 
introduced to our acquaintance by Mr. Barrow, and which Sir 
George Staunton has strangely omitted : nor do I find that Lord 
Macartney himself had carefully studied it. 
Nor could I have omitted the strange taste of the 
cc Anthropophagi who each other ate.”* 
Then had I to peruse the collections of Potter and Du Bos, 
and Kennet, and Adams : and to relieve their dull and dry details, 
* The following nations have been accused of being Anthropophagi, on 
the authorities annexed ; but I do not give full credit to all the charges. 
The inhabitants of the isles of Noussa Laout near Amboyna. Valentyn. 
The inhabitants of several islands near the isle of St. Mary. Adames Voy- 
ages, 1598. 
The islanders of Cayenne. Froger's Voyages . 
The Carabees of Guadaloupe. Voyage of Columbus . 
The tribes on the banks of the Yupara. Condamine. 1743. 
Other Indians on the borders of the river Amazon. Acuna and Artieda. 
Those on La Plata. History of Paraguay . 
The savages of Brazil. Laet Knivet. The Mexicans and Peruvians. Go- 
t&ara. Voyage of Pizarro. 
* The Scythians— Budian Scythians. Herodotus. The ancient Galatians 
JBoernus. 
