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162&#93; i6z] BAR cattle : they are known by two paps, which may be discovered by drawing the tongue aside. Few animals arrive at a conskk rable age, without being sometimes troubled with (his complaint, which seldom proves hurtful, unless the part affefted become inflamed by neglect, and the acrimonious hu- mours there collected should cor- rode the tongue, and produce such a degree of pain, as to prevent the animal from taking its proper food. The method of curing this dis- temper, simply consists in cutting the excrescence close off with a sharp pair of scissars, or a knife, washing the wound several times a day with brandy, or port- wine and vinegar, taking care, however, that no hard food but fresh grass, green herbs, and mashes, be given for several days, till the raw part be healed. In those cases where black cat- tle are subject to a species of barbs, which grow quickly, and hang in the form of fleshy pimples under the tongue, they ought first to be dipt off, as before stated, then pro- perly chafed with garlic and com- mon salt beaten together, and the mouth afterwards gently washed and rubbed with soft linen, dipt in lukewarm wine, or brandy and water. But if cows or bullocks happen to lose their appetite, without any external marks of barbies, M. Chomkl, in his Family Dictionary (Seep. 12(3 of our work), recom- mends the juice of garlic, or onions, mixed up with sallad-oil, to be introduced into the nostrils, every morning: this simp.e me- thod, it i; aserted, will restore the natural craving for food. BARILLA, or BARILHA, is properly, the Spanish name of 3 BAR plant cultivated for its ashes, from which the purest mineral alkali is obtained} but likewise signifies that particular isdrt of vegetable alkali which is principally imported froifl Spain. There are four plants cultivated by the Spaniards for this useful purpose, namely, the Barilla, Ga~ zul, Goza, and Salicor. But, as this account appears to be defec- tive, we shall first present the reader with a list of those native vegetables from Avhichgood barilla has been extracted in Britain ; and next give a description of the moki expeditious and profitable method! of preparing this valuable material, for the various processes of washing, bleaching, &c. Among the British plants, from which barilla or mineral alkali may be obtained, we shall at present enumerate the following, and dien describe them in their alphabetical places : 1. Two species of the Salsola, L. or Salt-wort. 2. Two species of the Salicor- nia, L. or Glass- wort, and Sam- phire. 3. The Zostera marina, L. or Glass-wreck. 4. Two species of the Trighch': n , L. or Arrow-Grass. 5. The Ckenopottium album, and maritinntm, L. or White and Sea Goose-Foot. 6. The Atriplcx porhilacoidcs, and littora!is,h. or Sea-Purslaxl, and Gi-uss-Orach. 7- The, Plantago maritivia, L. or Sea Plantain. 8. The Tamarix gallica, L; or French Tamarisk. 9. The Eiyvgium maritimum, L. or Sea Holly. 10. The Scchun Telephium,!^ or Orpine S^onechop, or Livelong. li. The