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it. The Monoculi, inftead of being affected 

 with it, fwam about as brifkly as they had 

 done in the water. This {hews, that if one 

 makes punch with this water, it muffc 

 be very ftrong to kill the Monoculi. I 

 think this water is not very wholefome for 

 people who are not ufed to it, though the 

 inhabitants of Albany, who drink it every 

 day, fay, they do not feel the leaft. inconve- 

 nience from it. I have been feveral times 

 obliged to drink water here, in which I 

 have plainly feen Monoculi fwimming ; but 

 I generally felt the next day fomewhat like 

 a pea in my throat, or as if i had a fwelling 

 there ; and this continued for above a week. 

 I felt fuch fwellings this year, both at Al" 

 lany and in other parts. My fervant, Tung- 

 Jlroem^ likewife got a great pain in his bread, 

 and a fenfation as from a fwelling, after 

 drinking water with Monoculi in it : but 

 whether thefe infe&s occaiioned it, or whe- 

 ther it came from fome other caufe, I can- 

 not afcertain. However, I have always 

 endeavoured, as much as pomble, to do 

 without fuch water as had Monoculi in it. 

 I have found Monoculi in very cold water, 

 taken from the deepen: wells, in different 

 parts of this country. Perhaps many of 

 our difeafes arife from waters of this kind, 

 which we do not fufficiently examine. I have 



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