. A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge. der the orni, that their gnats caufe the fruitof the garden fig-tree to ripen in the compafs offorty days. Tournefort fays I could not fuffi-ciently admire the patience of the Greeks, bufiedabove two months in carrying thele prickers fromone tree to another ; I was foon tol I the reafon ;one of their fig-trees ufually produces between twoand three hundred pounds of figs, whereas thofe ofProvence feldom above twenty five. Thefe figsare very good green ; when they would dry them,they lay them in an oven
. A New general dictionary of arts and sciences, or, Compleat system of universal knowledge. der the orni, that their gnats caufe the fruitof the garden fig-tree to ripen in the compafs offorty days. Tournefort fays I could not fuffi-ciently admire the patience of the Greeks, bufiedabove two months in carrying thele prickers fromone tree to another ; I was foon tol I the reafon ;one of their fig-trees ufually produces between twoand three hundred pounds of figs, whereas thofe ofProvence feldom above twenty five. Thefe figsare very good green ; when they would dry them,they lay them in an oven to keep them the reft of theyear. Barley-bread and dried tigs are the principalfubfiftence of the boors and monks of the Archipe-lago ; but thefe figs are very far from being fo goodas thofe dried in Provence, Italy, and Spain. Theprickers contribute perhaps to the maturity of thegarden fig, by caufing to extravalate the nutritiousjuice, whofe veflels they tear afunder in depofitingtheir eggs ; perhaps too, befides their eggs, theyieave behind them fomc fort of liquor proj-er to fer-ment. •■ --,7- FIE jnent gently with the milk of the fig and to; maketheir flefh tender ; for the figs in France ripen muchIboner by having their buds pricked with a ftrawdipped in olive oil. The particulars of thefe cir-cumftances are confirmed not only at Zia, Tinos,Mycone, and Scio, but in moft of the other iflandsof the Archipelago. FIDD, among failors, a piece of wood or ironthrufl through a hole in the foot of the top-maft,after it is drawn up to its utmoft height. See Mastand Trussel-Trees. In the article Cap wc obferved, that it was ufedto keep fteady the top-maft above the frame of thetop, as it is iiept fteady below by the truffel-trees :the fidd refts upon the truflel trees, and with it ofcourfe the whole weight of the top-maft : the fidd-hole is therefore juft above them when the top-maftsare erecf. FlDDLE-WooD. See the article Citha- REXYLUM. FIDEJUSSOR, among civilians, the fame wi
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