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Royal Navy, by eiFedually fweetening of llie food and water, preser- 



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and meliorating the noxious eiHuvia of the confined air between.^^ j^^^^^, 



decks 3 efpecially if they be added to the various methods propofed 

 andti-ied by Capt. Cook, in regard to the cleafilmefs of the perfons, 

 the airing of th^ bedding, changing of clothes, the airing of the 



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 crew at three watches, * inftead of putting them as is commonly 

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By the help of the regulations jufl: now exhibited, and 

 the before mentioned prophyladrics, our whole fliip's crew enjoyed 

 in general a very good ftate of health : and though we often paffed 



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extreme cold, (where we were furrounded by 



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hundreds of ice-iflands,. and had fnow and fleet .pouring down on 



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our decks;) to the moil in ten fe degree of heat, i.e. from 27° to 

 80" or 90° of Fahrenheits Thermometer,, we ^ were not deprived 

 of the ineflimable blelTing of health. 



The difeafes which preyailec^in the Ihip, when we were in the 

 cold antardic regions^ where we' often had hard blowing weather 

 with fnow, fleet,- and cold penetrating rain aiid fogs that were 

 continued for feveral days, 'confifl:ed chiefly in flight coMs, rheu- 

 matifms, fore throats, and fwellings of the glands : which latter 

 circumfl:ance was, a;ccording to my opinion, caufed by the ice- 

 water / for when we filled thirty or forty cafli5 with finall pieces 



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