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In such cases, if the animal can only be started chewing an artificially prepared cud she will often, on swallowing it, "raise" again; and rumination, thus started, will proceed once more, and the congestion be relieved. For a week or more we were kept busy, night and morning, furnishing the bark-eaters with cuds, prepared from the macerated inner bark of sweet elder, impregnated with rennet.
According to the old spelling it should have been pronounced Nee-ae-gaer'-ae, but it isn't. Adirondack means "Bark-Eaters," a local name for the tribe that once lived there and in seasons of scarcity ate the inner bark of the birch tree. Algonquian is a name for one of the great tribal groups, several members of which occupied the New England country at the beginning of our history.
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