. Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer. 34 literary intelligence. Sept. 4. and by degrees; so that lie prefers to continue his an- cient practice of extracting an excellent eating oil from mus- stard seed, which answers particularly well for salads, &c. There is again, I acknowledge, something new to me in the fact of extracting an eating oil from mustard seed j and we see what the invention of man will lead to, when impelled to search for a neiefsary article of food in warm climates, where the olive is wanting, but where the long fasts of the Greek, church make eil an efsential ob- ject
. Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer. 34 literary intelligence. Sept. 4. and by degrees; so that lie prefers to continue his an- cient practice of extracting an excellent eating oil from mus- stard seed, which answers particularly well for salads, &c. There is again, I acknowledge, something new to me in the fact of extracting an eating oil from mustard seed j and we see what the invention of man will lead to, when impelled to search for a neiefsary article of food in warm climates, where the olive is wanting, but where the long fasts of the Greek, church make eil an efsential ob- ject of meagre diet. I fliall now finifli with observing, that although the cultivation of the sesaraum may not answer the purpose of a private gentleman ; especially when he is already in pofsefsion of something of the kind that answers his purpose ; still if it fhould be found an article of profit in our islands where negroes are kept, it may there poAibly become an object of commerce with the Spaniards and French \ if the last are still religious enough to eai filh and oil in lent. A propos to lent, what do the Newfound- land fifhers say to the new Gallic religion, and that which their propagande are preaching to other catholic nations ? Are they not afraid that they might take the whimof eating roast beef like yourselves on meagre days j and leave the poor persecuted filh in the sea, trorn a neve refinement of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Edinburgh
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