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out a fuccefsful method of effeding the 
purpofe, which he had himfelf employed 
in the fevere winter of 1739-40. Other 
inftances, befides this, occur, of his atten- 
tion to whatever might advance the wel- 
fare of the public. So early as the year 
1742, he had laid before the Royal So- 
ciety Some Obfervations upon Mr. Sut- 
to?2\ Invention to extrad: the foul and 
" ftinking Air from the Well and other 
" Parts of Ships : With critical Remarks 
upon the Ufe of Windfails." In which 
he fuggefts feveral improvements in that 
ufeful invention [b). 
In 1753, he publhhed Mr. Appleby^ 
Procefs for rendering Sea- water frefh (c). 
In 1768, an Account of Mr. Charles 
Miller's Experiments on the fowing of 
Wheat, and dividing the Root ; by which 
means were produced, in one year, from 
one grain, 21,109 which yielded three 
pecks and three quarters of clean corn, 
weighing forty-feven pounds feven ounces ; 
{b) PhlL Tranf. Vol. xlii. p. 62— 70. 
(r) Vol. xlviii. p. 69, 
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