[174] Here lacks.—H.
[175] Principes longè magis exemple quàm culpa peccare solent.—H.
[176] The Lord Mountjoy.—H.
[177] Here ends the chapter entitled “Minerals,” and the one on “Metals” begins.—W.
[178] Here follow two stories about crows and miners. See Appendix.—W.
[179] Some tell me that it is a mixture of brass, lead, and tin.—H.
[180] Harrison substituted inkle in 1587 for packthread in 1577, a curious flight backward for modern readers. The inkle was a favourite pedlar-sold tape of the day, probably more at hand and more to the purpose than packthread.—W.
[181] Though boars are no longer bred, but only bred by, in Elizabethan days and before then the rearing of them for old English braun (not the modern substitute) was the chief feature of swine-herding; thus in “Cheape and Good Husbandry,” the author says: “Now, lastly, the best feeding of a swine for Lard or of a Boare for Braune, is to feed them the first week with Barley, sodden till it breake, and sod in such quantity that it may ever be given sweete: then after to feed them with raw Mault from the floore, before it be dried, till they be fat enough: and then for a weeke after, to give them drie Pease or Beanes to harden their flesh. Let their drinke be the washing of Hoggesheads, or Ale Barrels, or sweete Whay, and let them have store thereof. This manner of feeding breeds the whitest, fattest, and best flesh that may be, as hath beene approved by the best Husbands.” After this, Harrison’s maltbugs well might ask: “Who would not be a hog?”—W.
[182] The proper English name of the bird which vulgar acceptance forces us to now call bittern.—W.
[183] See more in the second chapter of the Description of Scotland.—H.