Part 7
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FOOTNOTES.
Footnote A:
In this same manner the Sandwich Islanders cooked all their food, when they were first discovered.
Footnote B:
An aged and very respectable member of the Society of Friends, in New York, who had long been extensively engaged in the flour business in that city, and who had always had his family bread made in his own house, was one day asked by his daughter, why he never used the baker’s bread:—“Because, my child,” replied he, “I know what it is made of.”
Footnote C:
See Memoirs of Philadelphia Agricultural Society. Vol. I. p. 226.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE.
This eBook makes the following corrections to the printed text:
● Pg iv ○ sour milk or buttermilk ○ sour milk or butter-milk
● Pg 38 ○ their bread stuff before it is ground ○ their bread-stuff before it is ground
● Pg 44 ○ the well being of those who have been the consumers ○ the well-being of those who have been the consumers
● Pg 49 ○ there are indviduals in every city ○ there are individuals in every city
● Pg 77 ○ stir in good indian meal ○ stir in good Indian meal
● Pg 88 ○ In order to this ○ In order to do this
● Pg 124 ○ “Keep ... no bread with his dinner, ○ “Keep ... no bread with his dinner,”
● Pg 130 ○ first the solution of muriatic or tartartic acid ○ first the solution of muriatic or tartaric acid
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