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of Ice, ou wKich fome diiTolved ice- water was 



poured. 



^then 



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ftru4k: them down into the hold, the temperature of the air was 

 commonly very fuddenly altered, fo that from 50° of Fahrenheits 



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Thermometer, the mercury at once fell down to '>^^'' -, and befides 



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this it is well known that ice expels all fixed air from water, nor 

 is the melting of the ice by fire, an qperation which can properly 

 ^rcftore its ^latural quantity of fixed air to it. 



The want of which 



may very probably caufe obftrudions in the glandular fyflem of 

 our body. 



Befides the above, the chief difeafes were fevers. However 

 -our ihip's company was more free from them, than might be 



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expected on a voyage, where we underwent j[b many changes of 

 climate. In the year 1774, in February, March, and April, 

 after we left the cold climates, and were advancing towards the 

 milder regions, the Captain, 

 three perfons more in the ihip 



my 



fon 



my fervant, and two or 



ttacked 



the bih 



g its fymptoms were acute pains, and the difeafe rofe 



4angerou 



height 



the Captain efpecially grew by negledin 



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the difeafe in the beginning, very weak, and had for about twenty- 

 )ur hours a continued hiccough, however, by the indefatigable 

 affiduity ^nd fkill of Mr." Patton, our excellent furgeon, ithe 

 j)atients were reftorcd to health ; and 



they recovered but 



llowly whiHl we were at fea, for want of freih and nouriihinfi^ fooxl. 



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