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a gallon and a half per day. These, if introduced 

 into our navy, might be of infinite service in long 

 voyages. 



Experiments of this kind would certainly be at- 

 tended with many great advantages ; and it were 

 much to be wished, that the great and opulent would 

 employ some portion of their time and affluence in 

 procuring, from distant countries, such useful ani- 

 mals as would propagate in our island, and are yet 

 unknown in it. By this means many of our lofty 

 mountains might contribute to support a variety of 

 useful creatures, that would, at the same time, 

 beautify the most barren and rugged parts of our 

 country. 



