r so 6 1 
— * 
<£ Nobody came by any Hurt, the People of the 
■ Houfe getting away in Time } but all ‘Dickeys * 
“ Houfttold-goods are loft, with a Cellar well flocked 
“ with Wine and Ale/’— — 
Now, Sir, though this Reprefentation be not alto- 
gether fo accurate, in every Part of the Relation, as 
we could have wifhed ; yet coming from an Eye-wit- 
nefs, and who happened to obferve it from the firft 
Motion, and is efteemed a Perfon of Fidelity, we 
thought it might not be unacceptable to the Royal 
Society, and to you, Sir, and which, if the mod 
learned and worthy Prefident judge proper, you may 
be pleafed to communicate to that Learned and Illu- 
ftrious Body, with our moft humble Services. I am. 
Tour moft obedient , 
and obliged humble Servant , 
Maur. Johnfon ,jun. 
XIII. An Examination of Sea- water frozen 
and melted again, to try what Quantity of 
Salt is contained in fitch Ice, made in Hud- 
fpn’s Streights by Capt, Chriftopher Middle- 
ton, F. R. S, at the Requejl of C. Mortimer, 
R. S. Seer. 
D R. Hales , in his learned Paper lately read at 
the Royal Society, wherein he propofes a 
Method of rendering Sea-water frefh, and wholfome 
* Richard Dickinfon. 
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