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it. The Monoculi 9 inftead of being affefted 

 with it, fwam about as brifkly as they had 

 done in the water. This fhews, that if one 

 makes punch with this water, it muft 

 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 fwimrning ; 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- 

 bany and in other parts. My fervant, Yung- 

 Jlroe?n>\ikewife got a great pain in his breaft,. 

 and a fenfation as from a fwelling, after 

 drinking water with Moncculi in it : but 

 whether thefe infects occafioned it, or whe- 

 ther it came from fome other caufe, I can- 

 not afcertain. However, I have always 

 endeavoured, as much as pofiible, to do 

 without fuch water as had Monoculi in it. 

 I have found Monoculi in very cold water, 

 taken from the deepeft 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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