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Method of Preserving Flesh-Meat without Spices, and with very little Salt. Jones, in his Miscellanea Curiosa, gives us the following description of the Moorish Elbollé, which is made of beef, mutton, or camel's flesh, but chiefly beef, and which they cut all in long slices, and let it lie for 24 hours in a pickle. They then remove it out of those jars or tubs into others with water; and when it has lain a night, they take it out, and put it on ropes in the sun and air to dry. When it is thoroughly dried and hard, they cut it into pieces of two or three inches long, and throw it into a pan or caldron, which is ready with boiling oil and suet sufficient to hold it, where it boils till it be very clear and red when cut. After this they take it out, and set it to drain; and when all is thus done it stands to cool, and jars are prepared to put it up in, pouring upon it the liquor in which it was fried; and as soon as it is thoroughly cold, they stop it up close. It will keep two years; will be hard, and the hardest they look upon to be the best done. This they dish up cold, sometimes fried with eggs and garlic, sometimes stewed, and lemon squeezed on it. It is very good any way, either hot or cold.

East Meath, a county of Ireland, bounded on the east by the ocean and the county of Dublin, on the west by West-Meath, on the south-west by Kildare, and on the north and north-east by Cavan and Louth. It is 32 miles long and 25 broad; contains 18 baronies; and sends to parliament, besides two knights of the shire, 12 members for the boroughs of Trim, Aboy, Navan, Kells, Duleek, and Ratoath. This country abounds in corn, pasture, and herds of cattle; the air and soil being good, and the inhabitants numerous. Several noble families have also titles of honour within it. Horns, prodigiously large, supposed to be those of the moose-deer, have been found not only in this country, but in several other parts of Ireland. Trim is the county-town.

West Meath, a county of Ireland, so named from its situation with regard to the former, by which it is bounded on the east: the Shannon parts it from Roscommon on the west; the king's county lies on the south of it, and Longford on the north. It is between 30 and 40 miles in length, and 20 in breadth; containing many rivers, lakes, and bogs. The land, where it is free from these, is abundantly fertile, and well inhabited. The baronies in this county are 13, and the members sent to parliament 10; viz. two for the shire, and two for each of the boroughs, Mullingar, Athlone, Fore, and Kilbeggan. Mullingar, by act of parliament, is the county-town.