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heating the barrels quite through, the same 

 as I have directed for pistols*. Be sure 

 your fire-arms are perfectly clean, when 

 you load them ; for I have known arms to 

 come home with much filth in the touch- 

 holes, after having been cleaned at the 

 gun-makers ; so much so, as to dirty three 

 or four feathers passed into them. 



After the various remedies I have given> 

 for the cure of disorders in the brute crea- 

 tion, when I possess a receipt how to com- 

 pose a most valuable tonic tincture, so bene- J^'^^'^ Tincturt 



A ' for weak, deli- 



ficial to the health and comfort of the most ^-t^wome«. 

 lovely part of the creation, I should be 

 justly condemned, in my neglect of the 

 fair sex, were I not to make it known to 

 them. To all delicate women, subject to 

 fainting-fits, hysterics, lowness of spirits, 

 and all nervous disorders whatever, the fol- 



* At this moment of time, I have a large musket, 

 loaded with No. 2, standing by my bedside, which ha» 

 been loaded considerably abote two i/ears, 



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