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bleaching properties. By means of special furnaces it is now forced 

 into the compartments of vessels as they lie at the dock and the whole 



process takes less than half a day and costs a comparatively insignificant 

 sum compared to the benefits derived. At many sea-ports, especially 

 during times of plague, all vessels, or at least all those from tropical 



