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their fire to be called by that name. From 
fome fuperftitious notion, which, I be- 
lieve, they cannot explain, they mfift that 
it thall be called ingle (quere from igzis), 
the Scotch word fora kitchen fire. 
Take tentis the Scotch for Take care.— 
«Tf you do’nt take tent,” {aid a Scotch 
phyfician, in Jamaica, to his-patient, ‘* it 
will foon be all over with you.’ The fa- 
mily thinking that the Doctor meant to 
recommend the ufe of the wine called tent, 
difpatched the houfe-negroes in all direc. 
tions to procure fome of it. But when 
the Dogtor next came for his moidore, 
they found that they had only mifunder- 
ftood one of his Caledonian phrafes.. 
May I be permitted to clofe my exam- 
ples with a little anecdote, not altogether 
foreion to the fubjeét ? One of the Scotch 
judges (Lord S—f—d, as I was told) 
being in France, was feized with a fpecies 
of xoftalgia—a violent longing, for one of 
the many peculiar difhes of his country ; 
but not having French enough to make-the 
-Jandlord underftand what he wanted, he 
had recourfe to a variety of figns, but 
with no better fuccefs. What was to be 
done in this emergency? ‘The object was 
importaat, and in danger of being low for 
ever! The cafuifts unanimoufly agree, 
that extraordinary cafes juftify extraordi- 
nary expedients. — The learned Lord, 
“they are at prefent. 
therefore, pulled off his wig, and, rubbing 
his clofe-fhaved pate, eagerly exclaimed, 
*¢ Dennex moi une téte comme ca! une téte 
comme ca!” ‘The landlord ran down ftairs 
as faft as if an anthropophage had been 
in purfuit of him ; and, as my author af- 
fured me, there was no faying what he 
might have done, if the frz/eur, who was a 
Scotchman, had not luckily come in, and 
interpreted his Lordfhip’s ¢éte comme ¢a, 
which meant nothing more than a finged 
fheep’s head*. 

* Pardon me, Mr. Editor, for having in- 
troduced this ftory for the fake of the finged 
fheep’s head, which I with I may. not have 
another opportunity of defcribing, till both 
the heads and bodies of fheep are cheaper than 
That ancient Scottifh 
difh is thus prepared: The head, with the 
kin on it, is finged over a blaze: of ftraw or 
brufh-wood, as pork often is in fome parts of 
England, or fometimes over the clear flame 
of a blackfmith’s fire. It is then well 
_{craped and wathed, the jaws being wrenched 
open, in order that the mouth may be cleanf- 
ed; and, being boiled in barley broth, it is 
ready for the table. The trotters, which 
“are prepared in a fimilar manner, generally 
accompany the head. It is thought by all 
the Scotch, and by every Eaglifaman whom 
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Having, I fear, overftepped the bounds : 
with which I can reafonably hope to bein- 
dulged, I fhall, for the prefent, poftpone 
any farther confideration of this fubject. 
But if you fhould favour me with a few 
columns, in fome future number of your 
well-condu&ted publication, I hall endea- 
vour to fhew, that @// the Scotticifms, or * 
which is nearly the fame thing, all the un- 
fafhionable Anglicifins, do not indifcrimi- 
nately deferve that oblivion to which fome 
critics apparently wifh to confign them ; 
but that not a few of them might be ad- 
vantageoufly re/foredto their ancient rights, 
privileges, and immunities. . I am, Sir, 
Your’s, &c. BucHanNAN. 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT OF THE POLITICAL JOUR- 
NALS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. 
Y N y HERE the court-gazette is com- 
pofed of the moft dreadful emblems 
on the gates of the Seraglio, of the heads © 
of Chriitians and the ears of Mamelucs— 
inthe empire of Mahomet-—the politician 
will not expsct to find news-papers iffuing 
from the prefs: the Turk is not more dif- 
tinguifhed from the Chrittian by his  reli- 
gion, than by the want of European culture, 
and of the inftitution of regular pofts and 
printing-offices for the quick diffufion of 
intellizence: and there are neither Muflul- 
man news-papers, nor indeed Muffulmen 
defirous of reading them. The /ublime 
Porte is {till too /ozw in the fcale of eivili- 
zation for this want of cultivated man: 
and it will be long ere the Turks, will re- 
lifh this rational amufement as an accom- 
paniment to his coffee and the fumes of 
his long tobacco-pipe.——Betides, in places 
where, on account of the plague, the 
news-papers muit perform quarantine and 
have holes made through them; where 
they cannot be obtained but by the eara- 
vans, and are tran{ported on the backs of 
camels ;—the appetite, even of the culti- 
vated European, for thefe vehicles’ of 
knowledge might perhaps lofe much of its 
keennefs:  * 
‘Therefore, at fir fight, it would feem 

I ever knew partake of it, an excellent dith, 
and by many is preferred to any other part 
of the fheep.. I fuppofe the only reafon why 
_it has not been included in our late plans of 
economical cookery is, that the fkins of the 
head and feet are applied to fome other ufe- 
ful purpofe, (guere glue ?) though perhaps it 
would not be eafy to point out any purpofe fo 
ufeful, efpecially at a time like the prefent, 
as that of fupplytng the poor with a whole- 
lome didh at a fipall expence, ‘ 
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