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naked planks, crowded together like Iheep lA 

 a fold. 



The mod flrikh-ig difference that occurred 

 to our obfervation was, that the flaves of the 

 Liverpool Ihlp were of blacker and fmoother 

 fkin than the others, and all of them free from 

 that dirty eruption, the cra-cra ; bur upon 

 our noticing this better appearance of one 

 cargo than the other, the apparent fupe-r 

 riority was inftantly explained to us, by the 

 obfervation that the Liverpool veflel had 

 reached her deftined port, and that her carg6 

 had been made up, for market, by having their 

 fkins dreffed over three or four times with a 

 compound of gun-powder, lime-juice and oil 

 — a preparation which not only deftroys the 

 cra-cra, and gives the fkin, a fmooth, black, 

 andpolifhed appearance, but likewife renders it 

 fleek and fine : and it was further remarked 

 that the cargo of the American fliip would 

 be made to look as well, before they reached 

 the port where they were to be expofed for 

 fale. 



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