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all the fkuttles and hatchways were fhut, and the fmoak confined, 

 fo that it had time like wife to deftroy the vermin. When this 

 operation was done during winter, I generally found the thermo- 

 meter in my cabin to rife, and to remain higher during the firft 

 twenty-four hours ; the difference however feldom exceeded two 

 or three degrees : for the fire was made between decks, and the 

 fmoak only penetrated into my cabin by the chinks and crevices of 



the deck. 



The next objed: falling under examination, are the perfons them- 

 felves failing in the Ihip, and their drefs. In general we find man- 

 kind of the fame turn of mind 3 among all ranks of men are fuch as 

 love neatnefs of their perfons and cleanlinefs both in regard to their 

 bodies and their cloths 5 and likewife there are others, who from 

 an invincible connate indolence or Huggifhnefs are always dirty, 

 and though they have a fufficient change they become however 

 £0 uncleanly, that it feems almoil an inherent quality to them ; 



no 



furpetfled this circumftance to contribute much towards their being remarkably lefs fickly, 

 thau thofe flilps of the fame fize of a modern conflruftion, is certainly very right in his fufpi- 



cion. 



When I was at Plymouth in the year 1772, expe6i:ing the arrival of the Refolution> 

 Dr. Irving vlfited with me a Dutch man of war, then lying there: we found the kitchen 



the 



fea 



that It 



was remarkably healthy. The fmoak was very great and the heat in the middle of a very 

 warm day, was to us, almoll intolerable between decks. 



