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formed a kind of thin striated substance of the
crispness of a poor pye-crust, free from greasiness,
and in this last form it suited my palate
best. Bulgarian Pilaw instead of rice4, is made
with wheat, soften'd by boiling, and enriched
with some kind of unctuous substance, whether
caymac or some kind of fat I could not tell:
hardly butter, for at this place I saw none of the
implements necessary to such a kind of manufacture.
I believe this kind of pilaw or something like it is called in England firmity
from the Latin frumentum or the French froment
Here as elsewhere among my Bulgarian hosts The fowls and the bread were equally
extemporaneous: the one passing from the barn-door
to the pot or spit, the other from the flour-bag
to the oven, in the interval between the
guest's first appearance and his sitting down
to table. — Pardon me, my dear Father, for whose
amusement this crawl is principally designed, pardon
me, I am sure you will, for entering this minutely
into the details of my bills of fare but off almost
entirely, during the course of this tedious
peregrination, from every opportunity of intellectual
intercourse, my relations must be proportionally
confined to the little incidents that have come
within the cognizance of the senses. As a father
no incidents that have been connected in a manner
however trifling and transient with my bien-etre,
can fail to interest you: and as a man of
speculation, you will be the less disposed to condemn
these seeming trifles, when you consider
that, in a political view, amongst the most important
of the features by which the condition
of a people can be depicted are those which
relate to their subsistence and the arts by which
it is supplied; and that, from knowing how
a

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Identifier: | JB/540/228/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1785-12-10	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	228	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Journal	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
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