Thoughts on the Laws Relating to Salt: With Arguments for the Repeal of Those Laws, Collected from a Variety of Sources, and Arranged Under Distinct Heads : to which is Prefixed, the Author's Evidence Given to the Honourable the Board of Trade, on the 8th and 11th of April, 1817, on the Same Subject |
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Page 103 - Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him. Then are the children free.
Page 53 - Mai. 1. tab 5"), on the other hand, I consider a very passable figure of a plant, in my herbarium named, by Nees himself, Cinnamomum iners ; but, whether or not I am right in the species to which I have referred it, I can have no hesitation in giving it as my opinion that it is not referable to any form of the C. Zeylanicum • neither can I agree with him in thinking the plant figured under the name of Laurus Cassia in the Botanical Magazine No.
Page 126 - And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath : 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land?
Page 65 - ... sheep to lick it, the rot was effectually prevented ; secondly, that his cattle, to whom he gave lumps of it to lick, were thereby protected from infectious disorders, and the cows being thus rendered more healthy, and being induced to take a greater quantity of liquid, gave more milk ; and I saw lumps of this salt to which his cows had access, in the place where they were kept.
Page 126 - Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, Even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: The residue of my people shall spoil them, And the remnant of my people shall possess them.
Page 99 - The committee appointed to conr sider pf the present high price of provisions, and to report the same, with their opinion thereupon, from time to time, to the house, have proceeded...
Page 19 - There are some that affirm, that the scattering of this salt water by the storm will do a great deal of harm to the fruits of the earth; but for my part I am of a quite different opinion, for I believe that a little salt spread over the surface of the earth, especially where it is heavy clay ground, does render it...
Page 154 - Agriculture, states that the ancient laws of Holland " ordained men to be kept on bread alone unmixed with salt, as the severest punishment that could be inflicted upon them in their moist climate ; the effect was horrible : these wretched criminals are said to have been devoured by worms engendered in their own stomachs.
Page 140 - ... and incurable. In Spain the cows are regularly supplied with a little salt ; and the increase of their milk, and the benefit which stable-fed cattle derive from it, are confirmed by many authorities. ' A Cheshire gentleman informs me, that when he wants extraordinary exertion from his horses, he always gives them a little salt ; and this is analogous to the practice in the East, where the camels are allowed salt during the passage of the Caravans over the Desert to Alexandria, as a support in...
Page 32 - After draining a piece of sour rushy ground, about the middle of October, some refuse Salt was spread upon a part of the land, after the rate of eight bushels to the acre, and in another part sixteen bushels. In a short time the vegetation disappeared totally ; and during the month of April following, not a blade of grass was to be seen. In the latter end of the month of May, a most flourishing crop of rich grass made its appearance on that part where the eight bushels had been laid. In the...