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time we ufually feed our Mill-horfes with Skim- 

 mings. However give me leave to obferve, that 

 though we have plenty of Molaffes brought to 

 Ijondon and other Englijh Ports, yet our moft 

 fkilful Diftillers here cannot turn it into Rum. 

 But indeed Rum cannot be made in England for 

 want of natural Heat of Climate to raife up the 

 Ingredients to a due Fermentation for that pur- 

 pofe. 



16. I readily affent to the Mariners Maxim, 

 viz'y That it is hotter at Nevis than under the 

 Equinoftial Line, and for the fame reafon which 

 they affign; /. e, becaufe when the Sun gets 

 at any confiderable diftance Northward from the 

 Equinox, the Earth under the Equinox begins to 

 cool apace, and continues fo doing till the Sun 

 returns back again to the fame Latitude : Where- 

 as, when the Sun is direftly over head at Nevisy 

 He not only renders the Earth there very hot, 

 but as he travels no farther Northward than to 

 the Tropick of Cancer^ the Earth at Nevis has 

 not time to cool, and of courfe muft grow much 

 hotter, when he is on his Zenith there in retur- 

 ning towards the Equinox, There muft be the fame 

 degree of Heat in the fame Southern Latitude, 

 from the Equinox to the Tropick of Capricorn. 



17. There happened no Hurricane whilft I 

 continued Reftor of St. John's Pariih in that 

 Ifland: But in the Hurricane Months^ viz, July^ 



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