Sea-waier. 175 
‘The above are not, however, the only experiments which 
have been made upon this beverage. Several persons, wishing 
to ascertain its effects by individual experience, have volunta- 
rily confined themselves to its use; and the members of the 
commission of inquiry are almost in the daily practice of taking 
it The captain of the Duclat has taken it every day at his 
theals, for twenty days, and has experienced not the smallest 
inconvenience from its use. M. M. Vasse and Chatelain, apo- 
thecaries to the marine at Brest, have occasionally kept the wa- 
ter in their mouths for four hours, by constantly renewing it, 
and have not found either the sharp taste, or other caustic qual- 
ities, which have been said to be peculiar to it. And here it 
may be proper to state, that the mouths of all the individuals 
who had taken the water fora length of time, were examined, 
without the detection of any thing in them either of a swollen 
* inflammatory appearance. Such are the reports of commis- 
sioners employed to investigate the effects of distilled sea-wa- 
ter, who, although separated at a great distance from each oth- 
er, and having no communication, all agree in the inference, that 
it may be employed, without any injury to the health, both as a 
beverage and in cookery, for the space of at least a month; 
and the fair presumption is, that it may be employed for a much 
t time; and that, in consequence, it must be considered 
%8 4 very happy resource in long voyages of discovery. 
