Sometimes, In
Order To Make The Olives Grind The More Easily Into A Paste, And
Part With More Oil, They Are Mixed With A Little Hot Water:
But
the oil thus procured is apt to grow rancid.
The very finest,
called virgin oil, is made chiefly of green olives, and sold at
a very high price, because a great quantity is required to
produce a very little oil. Even the stuff that is left after all
these operations, consisting of the dried pulp, is sold for fuel,
and used in brasieres for warming apartments which have no
chimney.
I have now specified all the manufactures of Nice which are worth
mentioning. True it is, there is some coarse paper made in this
neighbourhood; there are also people here who dress skins and
make leather for the use of the inhabitants: but this business is
very ill performed: the gloves and shoes are generally rotten as
they come from the hands of the maker. Carpenter's, joiner's, and
blacksmith's work is very coarsely and clumsily done. There are
no chairs to be had at Nice, but crazy things made of a few
sticks, with rush bottoms, which are sold for twelve livres a
dozen. Nothing can be more contemptible than the hard-ware made
in this place, such as knives, scissors, and candle-snuffers. All
utensils in brass and copper are very ill made and finished. The
silver-smiths make nothing but spoons, forks, paultry rings, and
crosses for the necks of the women.
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