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filled ; perhaps the little eggs of the worms, 

 which are undoubtedly already in the water, 

 might be killed by it in the beginning, and 

 by this means hindered from becoming fea 

 wood-lice (Onifcus aquaticus), and other infecrs, 

 which make the water naufeous and unhealthy. 

 Such experiments ought to be tried before 

 credible perfons, and not be pronounced as 

 good before they have been often repeated. 

 If this expedient fucceeds, we are delivered 

 from a great inconvenience ; and if it fails, it 

 does not hurt the water, but makes it capable 

 of affuaging thirft much better. We reckon 

 lemon juice very wholefome for internal ufe : 

 but, according to the account of our Spanijh 

 paiTenger, it cccafions a pain in -the hands if 

 you frequently wafh them in it. 



But we linger too long in Spain : we muft 

 go pair, the Canaries and the Cape of Good Hope 

 into the wide ocean, between Java and Suma- 

 tra, to Canton in China, there to employ pur 

 attention in thofe diflant parts. 



Of the fifhes and birds which we meet 

 with on our voyage, we ought to keep fome, 

 the former in Spanijh fpirits, and the latter 

 fluffed with tew, though their entire drying 



requires 



