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violent pain in your head, while the fpirits are filtering 
through the veffels of your brains, fhew the difference ?'and 
when aid any ever feel a like fenfation from black pepper, 
wr any pepper ate to excefs in every meal? » ; 
I pay down, then, as a pofitive rule of health, that the 
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warmeft difhes the natives delight in, are the moft whole- 
fome ftrangers can ufe in the putrid climates of the Lower 
Arabia, Abyflinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itfelf; and that fpi- . 
rits, and all fermented liquors, fhould be regarded as poifons, 
and, for fear of temptation, not fo much as be carried along 
with you, unlefs as a menftruum for outward applications. 
SPRING, or running water, if you can find it, is to be your — 
only drink. You cannot be too nice in procuring this arti- 
cle. But as, on both coafts of the Red°Sea you fcarcely 
find any but ftagnant water, the way I practifed was always 
this, when I was at any place that allowed me time and 
opportunity—TI took a quantity of fine fand, wafhed it from’ 
the falt quality with which it was impregnated, and fpread 
it upon a fheet to dry; I then filled an oil-jar with water, 
and poured into it as much from a boiling kettle as would 
ferve to kill all the animalcula and eggs that were in it. I 
then fifted my dried fand, as flowly as poflible, upon the 
furface of the water in the jar, till the fand ftood half a foot 
in the bottom of it; after letting it fettle a night, we drew it 
_ off by a hole in the jar with a fpigot in it, about an inch a- 
bove the fand; then threw the remaining fand out pest 
the cloth, and ag ied and wafhed it again. | 
Turis procefs is fooner performed than defcribed. The 
avater is as limpid as the pureft {pring, and little in-. 
x ferior 
