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RE M A R K S^ ON ' the 



VAT ION 

 OF MARI 



NERS.. 



PRESER-. and every body verfed in naval affairs will find that no fet of mer- 



are brought with greater relu(5tanee into an innovation than failors. 

 But the example of the officers, together with a gentle treatment 

 will.no doubt in a little time get the better of this difficulty, and* 

 introduce an aliment, oa board the EngUfli navy, which wilL 

 greatly contribute to the more healthy, flate of the (hips company 



thus preferye: the lives of- many; am< ufeful- member to 



and 



■tt 



Ibciety.. 



The y3i£;^;=*irc^/^, lately become of more uni 



ufe,.is of. flicH* 



Its 



an excellence as an antifeptic as needs no further comment, 

 preparation is well underllood in Germany, Denmark, Sweden,, 

 and Rxiffia; and has lately been fo well prepared for the King's 



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fhips in England, that it would be needlefs to dwell on this, fub 



]tCi : however, as there, may be perfons defirous of ufing this falu* 

 tary food, and at the fame time ignorant of the method of preparing 



it, I will here annex the following account: folid heads of cab- 



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r 

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bages are taken and.cut afunder, and then put into a kind of box, 

 running in groves over a machine, fixnilar to thofe. of a lefs lize 

 ufed for cutting cucumbers into flices for falad, which of courfe 



to be greater, and; proportioned to the bulinefs> 



iron planes for 



ihuft be 



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which is to be performed by the mach 



The 



cutting the cabbages into flices 



made from 12 to 18 inches 



length V 



4 



While the box is drawn backwards and forwards over 



this 



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