6.
[161] _Ib._ p. 15.
[162] _Ib._ p. 16.
[163] Treasury Minute, Sept. 29. Commissariat Series, p. 63.
[164] Letter to Mr. Trevelyan, dated 19th Sept. Commissariat Series p.
80.
[165] Commissariat Series, p. 208.
[166] _Cork Examiner_.
[167] MS. Memoir of his experience during the Famine, kindly written for
the author by Daniel Donovan, Esq., M.D., Skibbereen.
[168] Commissariat Series, part I, p. 46.
[169] Commissariat Series, part I, p. 55.
[170] _Ib._ p. 50.
[171] Commissariat Series, p. 122.
[172] Mr. Trevelyan gives the following caution to the
Commissary-General at Malta: "I am told that the Egyptian wheat is mixed
with the mud of the Nile; and if such be the case, it will, of course,
be washed before it is ground."--Commissariat Series, p. 156.
_Salm_ was the word used at Malta for "quarter," being, probably, a
corruption of the Spanish _salma_, a ton.
[173] In some parts of Ireland there existed a custom of boiling new
wheat in this manner, but without steeping. It was merely intended as a
mess for children, in order to give them the first of the wheat at
reaping time, but was not continued as a mode of cooking it. This mess
was called in, Irish _gran bruitead_, (pron.
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