it who think fo— my faculties have not yet 

 enabled me to comprehend the ingenious 

 dodrine which would employ fire to extin- 

 guifli heat — nor has my fagacity taught me 

 how to quench a flame by the addition of 

 oil, or sether ! 



Many days previous to our arrival la 

 Carlifle bay, the increafe of temperature had 

 brought out upon our fkins that troublefome 

 eruption called prickly heat. Our bodies v/ere 

 covered v^ith it, and the irritation and itch- 

 ing it occafioned were intolerable. Our com- 

 panion. Dr. Cleghorn, being an early fufferer 

 from it, demanded of thofe who had been 

 accuftomed to the Weft Indies, how long his 

 (kin was to be thus tormented ? So long, 

 good dodor, as you remain in health, was 

 the reply ! Upon which, wuth additional rub- 

 bing and fcratching, the dodor jocofely, al- 

 though fomewhat impatiently exclaimed, in 

 the accent of his country, " Faith captain, 

 and would you carry us into never-ceafing 

 torment? 'Bout fliip and tack for England 

 immediately." 



