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ponding tone is produced by blowing into a flute at 

 a distance, will see an effect of which he can no more 

 conceive the cause to exist in the blowing air into the 

 flute, than we can conceive the cause of the personal 

 difference of the various inhabitants of the globe to 

 exist in mere local situation ; nor can he any more 

 form an idea of the cause itself in one case, than we 

 can in the other: what happens to him then, in con- 

 sequence of having but four senses instead of five, 

 may, with respect to many phenomena of nature, 

 happen to us, in consequence of having but five 

 senses instead of six, or any greater number. 



Possibly, however, the learning of ancient Egypt 

 might run in two courses, one through Africa, and 

 the other through Asia, disseminating the same 

 words in each, especially terms of number, which 

 might thus become part of the language of people 

 who never had any communication with each other. 



We now made the best of our way for the Cape 

 of Good Hope, but the seeds of disease which we 

 had received at Batavia began to appear with the 

 most threatening symptoms in dysenteries and slow 

 fevers. Lest the water which we had taken in at 

 Prince's Island should have had any share in our 

 sickness, we purified it with lime, and we washed 

 all parts of the ship between decks with vinegar, 

 as a remedy against infection. Mr. Banks was 

 among the sick, and for some time there was no hope 

 of his life. We were very soon in a most deplorable 

 situation ; the ship was nothing better than an hos- 

 pital, in which those that were able to go about, 

 were too few to attend the sick, who were confined 

 to their hammocks ; and we had almost every night 

 a dead body to commit to the sea. In the course of 

 about six weeks, we buried Mr. Sporing, a gentle- 

 man who was in Mr. Banks's retinue, Mr. Parkinson, 

 his natural-history painter, Mr. Green the astrono- 

 mer, the boatswain, the carpenter and his mate, Mr. 

 Monkhouse the midshipman, who had fathered the 



