weed. * In England and Scotland, where this vegetable is generally
called clepy the poor people on the coafts turn it to a good
account, burning great quantities of it toadies, for which' they
are fure to meet with a market at the glafs-boufes; likewife'by
reafon of the feline particles contained in. thefe weeds, they are
boiled for pot afhes, and the fediment is known to be a good
manure,
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Bcfides thefe fmaller marine, products, plants or weeds, the
ocean here produces various fpecies of large vegetables, which are
known by the name of fea-trees, and though of fech as grow in
a bottom, a hundred or two hundred fathom deep, none except
young fhoots can be drawn up entire, yet the? nets, o f lines of the
fifbermen entangling in the tops of fech trees, feme of the lefler
branches are torn away and pulled up to Ae-filf&e; and thefe
branches are fech as may be concluded to come feom large-trees,
I having one feven inches diameter, though indeed it Is -the only
one of that dimenfion, the Others being hut two inches and a half
or under, like the flendereft fhoots u f cand-trees. I f I were better
acquainted with the latter, it would enable me to - undertake a
comparifon betwixt the congenial produ&s of the earth and water,
and thus afford higher entertainment to thofe of my readers, who
have a tafte for botany. But as Burgermafter Anderfon, in the
paflage above cited, cofre&s the great deficiency herein, I fhall
add a fhort defeription of th6fe fit my colleftion, which Were all
drawn up from the bottom of the fed aiding the eOdftCif Norway.
I muft previoufly obferve, ufe 'and- fefc1
frees, that the peafettts hold them indifcriminately to be very fer-
vieeable againft a diarrhoea, m which, however, they may be as
greatly deceived, as they too often are in their feperftrtious practice
of hanging up Ur ■ branch rif adeavtree m-theirdidhfeS/aMEIdnd-
of taJlifinan or prefervative againft fire, inferring, in their way pf i
* Some alfo aecuftom their fwine to eat the fea-weed, "and for them it is lilcewi'fe
boiled, being otherwife too hard of-digeftion; more particulars -on the ufe of it are to
be met with in the Swedifh trarifaffions, worth the knoWlegeof the induftrious Farmer,
who live» near the fee, and is for making the molt of every thing.
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