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HISTORIANS have generally a
greed, that the Tartars have for
ages been accuftoed to prepare a vi
nous liquor from Mare's milk—called
by them Koumifs. —The method of pre
paring it and its application to medici
nal uses, has lately been discovered and
communicated by Dr. John Grieve,
physician to the Ruffian army.—Upon
Dr. Grieve's firft hearing of it, he con
ceived an opinion of its importance, in
the cure of certain diseases—he imagin
ed that a preparation of milk, which
could not be curdled by the fluids of the
stomach, while at the fame time it pos
sessed all its nutritive qualities, with the
addition of a fermented spirit might be
of essential service in all .thole disorders
in which the body is defe^ive, either in
nourishment or strength.—The method
of preparing the Koumifs adopted by the
doctor is as follows :
Take, fays he, of frefh mare's milk,
of one day, any quantity ; add to it a
sixth part of water, and poor the mix
ture into a wooden vessel—use then as a
ferment, an eighth part of rhe sourest
cow's milk that can be got ; but at a
ny future preparation, a fmail portion
of old Koumifs will answer better the
purpefe of souring. Cover the vessel
with a thick cloth, and set it in a place
of moderate warmth ; leave it at rest
24 hours, at the end of which time the
milk will have become four, and a
thick substance will be gathered on the
top. Then with a flick, made at the
lower end in the manner of a churn flafr,
beat it till the thick fubffance above
mentioned be blended intimately 'with
the fubjacent fluid. In. this situation
leave it again at rest 24 hours more ;
after which, pour it into a higher and
narrower vessel, refemblirig a churn,
where the agitation mult be repeated,
as before, till the liquor appear to be
perfectly homogeneous, and in this state
it is called Koumifs. Its taste is a plea
sant mixture of sweet and four. Agita
tion must be employed every time be
fore it to used.
To obtain the milk in fufficient quari^
tity, the Tartars, he tells us, have a
cuffom of separating the foal from the
mare during the day—and allotting it
to fuckduring the night. When the
milk is to be drawn from the mafe,
which is generally done about five times
a day—they always produce the foal, on
a supposition that the mare yields her
milk more cdpioufly when it is present.
The doctor observes—that three things
are essential to the vinous fermentation
of milk—heat, souring and agitation—
but the chief art in fermenting milk
consists in agitation;—He mentions se
veral cases, where he used it with great
success—particularly a nobleman aged
26,^maciated by consumptive symptoms,
and lo.,eak that he required assistance
to get into his carriage—and after
drinking Koumifs, in, Tartary, for fix
weeks, was freed from all his symptoms
and was so plump and frefh coloured,
that his friends with difficulty recogni
zed him. This gentleman drank it
sometimes to the quantity of a gallon
and a half in a day—and not without
intoxication ; and it served him for both
food and drink. The do&or used it in
many mere cases, which gave proofs of
its nutritive and strengthening quali
ties—and observes in general, that all
those who drank it, agreed in faying,
that daring its use, they had little ap
petite for'other food ; that they drank it
in very large quantities, not only with
out disgust, but with pleafare ; that it
rendered their veins tarpid without pro
ducing langour ; that on the contrary,
they soon acquired from it, an uncom
mon degree of sprightliness and activity,
A Remedy for Consumptions.
Newhampfhire
FRIDAY, June 17, 1791.]
From the Albany Gazette.
EXETER, (New-Hampfhirc) Printed and Published by HENRY RANLET, at Nine Shillings per annum.
wiir always find some felf-fufficient raf
»€al to put his foot upon it ; but if he
walks upright, in the ways of truth, nei
ther poverty nor misfortune (hall ever
fubjea him to ferdi^de. A man of an
independent mind, who will give place
to merit though dr^ffed in rags, and who
has courage to despise meanness and de
ceit, though fandioned by custom, and
supported by all the gifts of fortune ;
(hall command refpe& and esteem in the
world in spite of envy, and in spite of
the great vulgar, who would with to lay
the foundation of all honour and esteem
it was not followed by indigestion,
head ache, or any of those symptoms
which usually attend the abuse of other
fermented liquors. And he further adds,
that the Bafchker Tartars, who, towards
the end of winter, are much emaciated,
no sooner in summer return to the use
Will the time never come when men
shall assert their freedom ? Will they
never forbear flattering the rich, and
saving to the ^wicked, thou art righteous ?
When will they muster up spirit enough
to fay to a rascal as Nathan did to Da
vid, thou art the man ? When such a
time shall come no one can tell : but un
til fach a time does come the greatest
part of mankind will be (laves, and the
upon wealth. How different to the eyes
of men of difeernment must the pusilla
nimous wretch appear, who not only
tamely submits to slavery; but bleffeth
the hand of the oppressor—who y&i/^ un
to the quicker, thou art righteous ?
How often do we fee a croud of cring
ing mortals extolling a rich, fool, prais
ing his foperiour talents and worth,when
all his merit lies in cheating those very
performs out of their property, and, mak
ing them instruments to build him up
and to effefl their own ruin ? These are
'the people that Solomon faith the nati
''"'&&" 4 ^° r ° —These are the people
that all men of sense must despise, even
their boasted leaders hold them in con
tempt, and when they have got all they
can get from them, will treat them with
the most mortifying negleft.,
It is diverting to a Humorist co fee a
great knave leading a ring of subordi
nate villains, and these villains with
each his circle of dependent servants,
and each of these servants with his com
pany of cowardly (laves, all favouring
the views of their great leader, and cry
ing up his merit to the fries ; while in
private the great man laughs at and des
pises the whole tribe ; and each inter
mediate blockhead.although he worships
his leader, yet holds his followers in de-
rilion.
title of Freemen will be but a bur
lefqae upon them.
and that even in cases of fame excess,
of Koumifs, than they become strong and
fat.—ln short, he is of opinion, that
as described, is easy —no person having
these advantages, fhoald let this remedy
pass without giving it a fair trial.
Koumifs is a ftubftance of easy digestion
—which at once ftrengihens the <lo,nach
and nourishes the body—and may be
come a powerful remedy in almost all
chronic disorders.
Solomon.
PRIDE is disgusting and arrogance is
intollerable : But there is a certain
dignity of character, which it becomes
every free person to maintain. If a
man will lay his neck on the ground he
As the season of the year approaches
that mare's milk can be procured, espe
cially by those who reside in the country,
and as the proceG for making Koumifs,
He that faith unto the avieAe^, thou art
ri^teous ; him (ball the people curse ;
nations foall abhor him.
The HUMORIST, No. 11.
From the Farmer's ,&urnal.
^BB^fy
THE
INTERESTING ANECDOTE.
IN the reign of the late French King,
when France was groaning under
the weight of taxes, and the people
^^gg^g against the complicated hor
rors of tyranny and odious exa&ions,
Marechal de Belleifle, then minister,
was informed that a person solicited the
favour of an audiance with all possible
eagerness ; the request was acceded to —
a man wrapped up in a cloak appeared
before the Minister, whom he this ad
dressed, "My Lord, dein to listen to
me—l am a Protestant and a preacher,
nor am I ignorant of the dangers, to
which the latter quality exposes me ;
but I own it, because I know that your
closet must be an asylum for those who
are admitted into it."—" Your confi
dence pleases me (answered the Mare
chal) and it (hall not be deceived ; speak
to me candidly, and tell me what you
want." "Deputed by my brethren the
refugees, who, notwithstanding the rigor
ous edia of Louis XIV. still regret
their banishment from France, I come
in their name to offer you the pecuniary
l affiftar.ee of which the country Hands so
I much in need." —He then opened a
pocket-book, and (hewed the minister
notes to the amount of 40 millions of
livres, on the best banking-houses in
Europe, and continued ' his address :
This is only an earnest of the facrific.es
we are ready to make to Fran'ce, if ffie
consent to re-admit us into her bafom,
annihilate the revocation of the edict of
Nantz, which hypocrisy and avarice ex
torted from the King. Seventy years
exile has not been able to eradicate from
our hearts an affection for a country
which our fore-fathers ordered us ever to
indulge. There are still alive some ve
nerable witnesses of those days of horror
and desolation, when wives were torn
from their hufbands' arms, when tender
infants were snatched from the brefts of
their mothers, when methods equally in
jurious to nature and reason were em
ployed to force them to abandon the re
ligious tenets of their ancestors—those
evils, the work of barbarous prejudices,
have not effaced from our hearts the de
sire of returning to France. We were
obliged to export our talents and our iri
duftry with us. We now petition to
bring them back, improved by the assi
duous exertions of seventy years. All
we want, is liberty of confeience, and a
civil exigence. Dein my Lord to lay
our proposal at the foot of the throne and
become our prote&or."
The minister, astonished and flattered
answered the deputy with much kind
ness, and left him alone in his closet,
while he went to acquaint the king of
what had taken place. An extraordi
nary Cabinet-Council was summoned
immediately ; the fubie& was debated
with much warmth. Pride and hatred
were opposed by reason and humanity—
but pride and hatred triumphed ! The
minister was scouted for having, even at
tempted a demand, which, according to
the Apostles of intolerance, was a crime
against religion. They said it would
be the signal for a civil war, and all its
attendant horrors ; and that it would be
felling France to heresy ! Louis XV.
If mankind would confider but a mo
ment, they would fee that riches can
not make a man wife ; it is the improve
ment of the mind that raises one person
above another, and every man's mind
is capable cf improvement. It is not
poverty, but meanness of foul, that de
grades the human species. Let a man
be ever so rich, yet if his mind is grov
ling and vile he deserves no refpe& ;
but laman is oppred'ed with poverty,
and has a noble and enlightened fool,
he merits regard and esteem, and he
will obtain it, when the rich fool shall be
defpifed.f
Gazetteer.
[Numb. 46 of Volume < —•
" Is it in Pleasure's airy rounds to fly?
'' To laugh, to dance ?"—-the fouls of
joy would know—
'' To plunge in lewdness, and no care
bellow
'' On what may greatly fit us for the iky?"
No.—Tis the twilight of a heavenly day,
Whose radiant glories opening on the
Soul,
Shall raise, and bear it, from itfelfaway.
Far o'er the bounds of this terrestrial
pole.
Wak'd to new rapture bv the living'!„
Where GOD informs the immeasura
ble whole.
ELLA.
WANTED,
A FEW pounds of Sheep's
Wool, at this offiss.
At this feaft the Ear! Warwick as
Steward, Earl Bedford TreHurer, the
Lord Hastings was comptroller, with
many more noble officers ; servitors iooo;
cooks 62, kitcheneers 515. BJ se
ven years after, the King sieved on all
the estates of this Archbishop, lent hm
prisoner to Calais in France, where he
Was kept bound in extreme povery ;
justice thus puhiltiing his former prodi
gality
'' In vegetative being here below ?
'' To eat, to drink, to deep, and then
—to die ?"
"OAY, what is Life ?" the sons of for-
O row cry—
''ls it to breathe a lingering age of
woe
sighed, and then for the firil time in a
ny material affair, did he exhibit a proof
of weakness—which served as a pledge
for the other evils he afterwards hurried
on his wretched fubjeds.— The Mare
chal, being returned, answered the par
son, '' the King does not consent to the
proposal of his refradory fubeds ; he
never will grant a refidenc A in France
to those who flubbornly profefs and
who propagate error : Go away and
be grateful for the King's clemency,
which allows you 48 hours to quit the
Kingdom." The honest mao retired
without a murmur, for the Baflile exit!d,
and so did lettres de cachet ; and the
enemies of France gained by her impo
licy, while she fullered in the extreme.
This fad, which is little known, took
place about 4o years ago, What a pro
gress has reason made since that period !
Lettres de cachet are aboltfhed — The
Baftile is levelled to the ground, and
the Protestant refugees arc encouraged
and invited to take possession of the es
tates of their anceflors!
ANNO Domini, 1470, in the tenth
year of King Edward the fourth,
George Neville, brother to the
Great Earl of Warwick, at his inftal
ment into his Archhifh^prick of Yo r k„
made a prodigious feaft to all the nobi
lity, mod of the prime Clergy, and ma
ny of the great Gentry ; wherein by his
bill of fare 300 quarters of wheat, 330
tons, of ale, 104 tens of wine, 1 pipe of
spiced wine, 80 fa r oxen; 6 wild ba'is
1004 weathers, 300 h-gs, ?co calves,
3000 geese, 3000 capo M 300 pigs, too
peacocks, 200 cranes, 200 kd, 20 o
chickens, 4000 pidgeons, 4000 rabbits,
204 bittcurs, 4000 duck , {"? herfevs,
200 pheafarits, 500 partrig-s, 4000
woodnocks, 400 plovers, 100 co,-reus,
100 quail', 1000 egnere 200 rees, 4)0
bucks; does and roebucks. 1406 hot
venison Dairies 4000 cold veni'en rallies,
1000 d shes Jelly, 4000 cold cuftJrds,
7.00 hot cuftardsgoo pikes, 500 br^ n,
8 seals, 4 porpoises and 406 r aro. —
From the Gazette of the United States.
SONNET, V.