56 LETTER IT. 



River, he went back to his Mafter found and clean 

 at two months end. This is a confirmation of what 

 Sir Hans Sloan fays, in page 45, of his Voyage to 

 "Jamaica^ viz. The Bath is here taken notice of by 

 fome Travellers, as Harcourt and Smith. The 

 firft fays it cures the Leprofy, and is good in 

 Coughs, it curing the Author, who drank and 

 bathed. It alfo remedies burning with Gunpow- 

 der, and fwelled Legs, Harcourt^ Purchas^ 44, 

 The fecond tells us. That it cured Men in two 

 or three days, who were tormented with a burn- 

 ing fwelling, as fcalding from the Dew of Trees, 

 Smith's Obf. pag. 57. I guefs, that Smith means 

 here Manchineal Trees, under whofe fhade fome 

 of his Men had inconfiderately lain down for re- 

 pofe, or flood to efcape a fhower of Rain, or per- 

 haps cut down Wood for firing. 



34. I myfelf bathed in it once a fortnight, and 

 own that it contributed not a little to my Health 

 and Vivacity. I ufually went in at nine a Clock 

 at night -, and obferved, That in two minutes 

 time the fweat was ready to blind me, and that 

 in about three minutes more I was obliged to quit 

 it through faintnefs of fpirit. Upon flepping out 

 of it unto the green bank, the wind blew fb ex- 

 ceeding cold that I fhould almoft have fancied my- 

 felf inflantaneoufly tranfported to Nova Zembla^ 

 or Greenland'^ that is to fay, we have a perpetual 

 breeze of the Trade- wind that runs from Eaft to 



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