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mented liquors are peculiarly appropriate to the warmer 

 climates ; while bland, oily animal matters are rather 

 designed for the use of the frigid regions. . . . 



' Another extremely pernicious effect of these liquors, 

 is the indolence and stupidity they occasion, rendering 

 men inattentive to their own preservation, and unwilling to 

 use those exertions, which are so peculiarly necessary in 

 situations like those described in the foregoing narratives. 

 And this leads me to the consideration of a third important 

 head, that of exercise. . . . 



' The two companies of Dutchmen seem to have done 

 little during their melancholy abode but drink brandy and 

 smoke tobacco over their fires. On the other hand, Captain 

 James' men were very sufficiently employed in the laborious 

 task of building their pinnace, which, notwithstanding their 

 weak and sickly state, they had nearly completed before 

 they found the work unnecessary. . . . 



' But it is to be remarked, that in these instances, what 

 I consider as the most powerful cause of the scurvy, the use 

 of salted provisions, did not exist ; and therefore less 

 powerful preservatives would be necessary. . . . 



'And the advantage of subterraneous lodgings is 

 proved by the well-known fact of the unchanging tempera- 

 ture of the air at certain depths beneath the surface. 



We turn now to a very different subject. 



