Substances used as food, as exemplified in the Great exhibition

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Страница 147 - We shall never certainly be able to discover how men were led to the use of the hot infusion of the leaves of a certain shrub (tea), or of a decoction of certain roasted seeds (coffee). Some cause there must be which would explain how the practice has become a necessary of life to whole nations.
Страница 143 - They gather it, when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind and makes it black ; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin crust ; and the inside is soft, tender, and white,' like the crumb of a penny loaf.
Страница 142 - The fruit grows on the boughs like apples; it is as big as a penny-loaf, when wheat is at five shillings the bushel; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind; when the fruit is ripe it is yellow and soft, and the taste is sweet and pleasant. The natives of Guam use it for bread. They gather it, when full grown, while it is green and hard; then they...
Страница 223 - ... be unfolded, and allow the pill to produce the effects of their usual allowance. When this baneful habit has become confirmed, it is almost impossible to break it off; the torments of the opium-eater, when deprived of this stimulant, are as dreadful as his bliss is complete when he has taken it ; to him night brings the torments of hell, day the bliss of paradise.
Страница 249 - THIS tree is purely a child of nature, and seems to mock all the labours of man, in his endeavours to extend or improve its growth : not one attempt in fifty to propagate the young plants, or to raise them from the seeds, in parts of the country where it is not found growing spontaneously, having succeeded. The...
Страница 227 - So very exciting to the nervous system in many individuals, is this Fungus, that the effects are often very ludicrous. If a person under its influence wishes to step over a straw or small stick, he takes a stride or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree ; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets ; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.
Страница 210 - A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Страница 223 - Ramadan are for them fraught with the most dreadful tortures, as during the whole of that month they are not allowed to take anything during the day. It is said that to assuage their sufferings, they swallow, before the morning prayer, besides the usual dose, a certain number of other doses, each wrapped up in its particular paper, having previously calculated the time when each envelope shall be unfolded, and allow the pill to produce the effects of their usual allowance.
Страница 21 - We thus find that the practice of eating earth is common throughout the whole of the torrid zone, among the indolent races who inhabit the most beautiful and fruitful regions of the earth. But accounts have also come from the north, through Berzelius and Retzius, from which we learn, that, in the most remote parts of Sweden, hundreds of cartloads of earth, containing infusoria, are annually consumed by the country people as bread-meal, more from fancy (like the smoking of tobacco) than from necessity....
Страница 156 - ... corner of the farm, from which they are afterwards transplanted.* When about a year old they are from nine inches to a foot in height, and ready for * Sometimes the seeds are sown in the rows where they are destined to grow, and, of course, are in that case not transplanted. transplanting. They are planted in rows about four feet apart. Five or six plants are put together in each hole, and these little patches are generally about three or four feet from each other in the rows. Sometimes, however,...

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