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fort, and bad quality, either actually rancid, or fuch as Is on the 

 point of becoming fo. How ill fuited oil is in fuch a ftate to 

 bealth, I leave to thofe to judge who know what effedts acids have 



upon 



our frame. Wheat or oatmeal are provided for the navy for 

 breakfaft, and are both moft excellent aliments for men, who are 

 deprived of frefli vegetable diet, during a long fpace of time. 



We have hitherto examined the food on board of fuch fhips as are 

 performing long voyages : 



we are next to examine the 



parts 



of the ceconomy of a failor. The great numbers of people per- 

 fpiring and breathing in a {hip, muft naturally render the air be- 



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iween decks at lafl unfit for breathing -, or at leaft fo much charged 



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with alkaline and feptic effluvia, that it muft be very difficult to 

 preferve the health of the feamen in the midft of fuch a cloud of 

 infeding fteams ; this will become more evident, by confidering 

 that the bilge- water in the pump-well, is more than fufficient to 



IV ia. After we left Ply- 



£11 the whole ihip 



noxious effl 



mouth, in the year 1772, and gradually came into warmer cli- 

 jnates^ a mod intolerable flench began to fpread throughout the fhip ; 

 the bilge-water having become highly putrid, and diffufmg its nox- 

 ious effluvia from the motion, continually forming and prefen ting 



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new furfaces for the evaporation of the ofFenfive particles. No 



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parts were more infeded by this fmell, than my own and my fon's 



' cabins, becaufe they were nearefl to the main mail, and confe- 



X quently 



