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ILLUSTRATIVE ADDENDA. 473
ESTIMATED PRODUCE OF AN ACRE OF LAND.
Per Year. Per Day.
Mutton 2281b8. 10 oz.
Beef 182" 8
Wheat
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1,680 "
Barley 1.S00 "
Oats 2,200" 6
"
4J lbs.
5 "
Peas 1,650" 4J "
Beans 1,800" 5 «
Rice 4,565" 12£ "
IndianCorn 3,120" 8* "
Potatoes 20,160" 55
Parsnips 26,880" 74 "
Carrots 33,600" 92
"
Yams 40,000" 110
Turnip 56,000" 154
Beet 75,000" 205
" Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, informs us: ' That the most
beautiful women in the British dominions, are said to be, the greater
part of them, from the lower ranks of the people of Ireland, who are
generally fed with potatoes. The peasantry of Lancashire and Cheshire,
also, who live principally on potatoes and buttermilk, are celebrated as
the handsomest race in England.'
"The peasantry of Wales, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, Po
land, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, and
utmost every country in Europe, from the most northern part of Russia,
to the Straits of Gibraltar, subsist principally, and most of them entirely,
on vegetable food. The Persians, Hindoos, Burmese, Chinese, Japan
ese, the inhabitants of East Indian Archipelago, of the mountains of
Himalayan, and, in fact, most of the Asiatics, live upon vegetable pro
ductions. The great body of the ancient Egyptians and Persians, con
fined themselves to a vegetable diet; and the Egyptians of the present
day, as well as the Negroes (whose great bodily powers are well known),
live chiefly on vegetable substances. The brave Spartans, who for
muscular power, physical energy, and ability to endure hardships, per
haps stand unequaled In the history of nations, were Vegetarians. The
departure from their simple diet was soon followed by their decline.
The armies of Greece and Rome, in the times of their unparalleled
oonquests, subsisted on vegetable productions. In the training for the
public games in Greece, where muscular strength was to be exhibited
in all its varied forms, vegetable food was adhered to, but when flesh-
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