warden ; tliefe were accordingly packed up in boxes and calks, and 
flowed with other goods in the hold of the fhip. 
When he arrived at Bencoulen, he fowed his feeds; but foon 
found, to his great mortification, that they were all fpoiled, for 
none of them came up. 
Convinced, that it muft be owing to the heat of the fhip’s hold, 
and their long confinement in putrid air, and having foon occa- 
fion to return to England ; he determined in his next voyage thi- 
ther, to pack them up in fuch a manner, and place them fo, as to 
give them as much air as he could, without the danger of expofing 
them to the falt-water; and therefore put the fmaller kinds into 
feparate papers, and placed them among fome clean flraw in a 
fmall dole net, and hung it up in his cabbin; and the larger ones 
he put into boxes, flowing them where the free air could come 
at them, and blow through them: the effed was, that as foon as 
he arrived at Bencoulen he fowed them, and in a little time found, 
to his great fatisfadion, that they all grew extremely well. It is 
well known to our feedfmen, that, even here at home, feeds kept 
in dole warehoufes, and laid up in heaps, frequently fpoil, unlefs 
they are often lifted, and expofed to the air. 
Seeds faved in moilf cold fummers, as their juices are too 
watery, and the fubflance of their kernels not fufficiently hardened 
to a due ripenefs, are by no means fit for exportation to warmer 
climates. 
Our acorns, unlefs ripened by a warm fummer, will not keep 
long in England: thofe acorns that are brought from America, 
and arrive early in the year, generally come in good order, owing 
to their juices being better conceded by the heat of their fum- 
mers, and are not fo apt to fhrivel when expofed to the air as 
ours are. 
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