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Icc ifi applicable lo c* ;po*vC4 



in hot weal her, cspccully in country fami- 

 lies. 



Ill l/7iy 1 built an icc-housc in the 

 I " ' I of Chc5a|>cak, where t!ic ground 

 is flat, and the surface only seventeen feet 

 above the high-w.itcr mark of a salt- r 

 river, and eighty yards from it. It was 

 constri with ^ j to prevent en- 



trance of air, according to the then univer- 

 sal p: , il it was 1 with 1 700 

 iolid teet of ice, the pit being twelve feet 

 square a?Hl twelve feet deep : but it failed 

 of keeping tiic ICC till sumnier, because of 

 Its moisture and closeness. \\ l-m the 

 pit was dng it sluwcii :ne a: c 

 i>\ moisti near the bottom : the Ic.ist 

 moisture ih Kk) \ ' • ' 

 Moisture lit \hv ^itlp*; nr hotrnm nf an ICC^ 

 pit, »- I I l<» the I! c of the 

 dome hv It wliich, in the deepest pits 

 tbaicjfibcdi -haboTcihcf . ng 



