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making fait. The fun would exhale a confi- 

 derable quantity of the frefh water, which 

 would make the fea-water much ftronger, 

 and take lefs fire. 



Poflibly, the chryftallifation of fait might 

 be effected confiderably cheaper than it ufual- 

 ly is, if the fea-water was conveyed into large 

 refervoirs in autumn; and, when frozen dur- 

 ing the winter, the ice broken and taken out. 

 As it is only pure water which congeals, the re- 

 mainder would be much more ftrongly im- 

 pregnated with fait. And, perhaps, in a 

 hot fummer, the heat of the fun would chryf- 

 tallize it ; at leaft, it would require lefs fire 

 than the common method. 



The fourth obfervation is, the proper plan 

 for conftruting thefe villages. In a great 

 meafure, the future fuccefs of the fiflieries 

 depends upon the villages being properly 

 planned out at fir ft. Every village ought to 

 be as near the fliore as the fituatioii will ad- 

 mit. 



In fome places Where there is a good har- 

 bour, which will only admit of building a 

 few warehoufes, it would not be very incon- 

 venient, although the villages were placed a 

 Jhort diftance from the fhore. 



"There 



