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 and Sentiments. H7 It will have been remarked that in mofl. of thefe piftures the procefs of cookery appears to have been carried on in the open air, for, in one inftance, a tree ftands not far from the caldron. This appears, indeed, to have been frequently the cafe, and there can be no doubt that it was intended to be fo reprefented in our next cut (No. 103), taken from the well-known manufcript of the romance of " Alexander," in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford. We have here the two procelfes of boiling and No. 103. Bo'iUng and Roaft'ing. roalling, but the latter is only employed for fowls {gae'iti in this cale). While the cook is ball:ing them, the qiiiftron, or kitchen-boy, is turning the fpit, which is fupported in a very curious manner on one leg ot the tripod or trivet, on which the caldron is here fupported. The building to the right is ihown by the hgn to be an inn, and we are, probably, to fuppofe, that this out-of-door cooking is required by fome unufual tellivity. Although