[77] In throwing away money and labour upon land that does not require it.
[78] Virgil, Georg. I. 268, et seq., speaks of the work that might be done on feast days—making hedges, for instance, irrigating land, catching birds, washing sheep, and burning weeds.
[79] “Ne familiæ male sit.”
[80] In B. xvii. c. 3.
[81] The Pteris aquilina, or female fern. No such juices drop from it as here mentioned by Pliny, Fée says.
[82] A superstition quite unworthy of our author; and the same with respect to that mentioned in the next line.
[83] Sub-soil drainage is now universally employed, with the agency of draining-tiles, made for the purpose.
[84] The flower of the lupine could not possibly produce any such effect; and the juice of cicuta, or hemlock, in only a very trifling degree.
[85] This word answers to the Latin “frumenta,” which indicates all those kinds of corn from which bread was prepared by the ancients.