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hi high Northern Latitudes . 
cooking it had undergone. It is evident, too, 
that the failors of Kamtfchatka, who fubfift 
during fo long a voyage on animal food unfalted, 
mud either preferve it by fmoking, freezing, or 
other fimilar proceffes, or mud ufe it in a putrid 
ftate. To this lad, indeed, from the accounts 
we have of the ulual diet of thefe people, they 
feem not at all averfe 5 though we may find it 
difficult to conceive, how the body can be kept in 
health by food abfolutely putrefied. The Lap¬ 
landers, alfo, who fubfid fo entirely on animal 
food without fait, mud have other methods of 
preferving it for a confiderable time; and, indeed 
it feems to be the condant pradice in Ruffia, and 
other northern regions, for the inhabitants to 
freeze their meat in order to lay it up for their 
winter’s dock. 
Thefe fads lead to the confideration of the 
quedion, whether faked meat be prejudicial, on 
account of the quantity of fait it contains j or, 
merely, becaufe the fait fails to preferve the 
juices of the fleffi in fuch a date, as to afford pro¬ 
per nutriment ? The latter, I believe, is the more 
prevalent opinion ; yet I confefs, I cannot but 
think, that fea-falt itielf, when taken in large 
quantities, mud prove unfriendly to the bc^y, 
I ne feptic quality of Jmall proportions of fait 
mixed with animal matters (and fmall proportions 
only can be received into the juices of a living 
pnimal) has been proved by the well-known 
H ^ experiment^ 
