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The flour mould be kiln-dried, and put into tight barrels 

 ■which are capable of holding liquids % Flour thus preferved and 

 packed hath been perfectly good for more than three years, 

 without the leaft appearance of the weevils. 



To make the beft ufe of flour thus preferved, there mould be 

 both a bifcuit-maker and an oven on board. 



With regard to liquors, a large quantity of fhrub from the bell 

 fpirits and fruits is recommended, which mould alio be made juft 

 before the voyage takes place ; the ftronger the fpirit, the lefs 

 flowage. Dampier preferred Vidonia to other wines, on account 

 of its acidity ; and perhaps Old Hock might ftill anfwer better. 



1 mould ft and in need of many apologies, for having fuggefted 

 thefe hints to Northern difcoverers, had I not received them from 

 officers of the royal navy, as well as Greenland mailers, and emi- 

 nent phyficians; if any one of thcfe particulars, however, would 

 not have been otherwife thought of upon fitting out the fhip for 

 fuch a voyage, and mould be attended with any good effects, it 

 will become my beft excufe. 



In order alfo to promote fuch a voyage of difcovery, I mould 

 conceive, that extending the parliamentary reward of twenty 

 thoufand pounds by iS G. it. c. 17. for the paffage to the Pacific 

 Ocean through Hudfon's Bay, to a Northern communication 



N. B. It is beft to proportion the cafks or barrels to the quantity con- 

 fumed at a time, as the feldomer the meat is expofed to the air the bet- 

 ter. The fame procefs does for pork, only a larger quantity of fait, and lefs 

 fugar; but the prefervation of both equally depends on the meat's being 

 hot when firft falted. Sir Jchn Narborough falted young feals, and Sir 

 Richard Hawkins many barrels of Pengwyns, both of which are faid to 

 have been wholefome and palatable: fifh likewife caught at the approach 

 of winter might be fo cured, or indeed preferved, by the froft without 

 any fait. Captain Cook's precautions need not be here alluded to. 



a Woodes Rogers obferves in his voyage, that the water which he had 

 brought with him from England on his arrival at Juan Fernandez, was 

 all fpoiled by -the ;cafks being bad. Callander 3. p. 259, 



between 



