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blamed myfelf for not having a ftill along with me 
(as I had often thought no lliip fhould be without 
one). But it was now too late ; and there was a ne- 
ceflity to contrive fome means for our prefer vation. 
I was not a ftranger to Appleby’s method : I had 
alfo a pamphlet wrote by Dr. Butler, intituled, An 
eafy Method of -procuring of frefh Water at Sea. 
And I imagined, that foap might fupply the place 
of capital lees, mentioned by him. I now fet my- 
felf at work, to contrive a hill ; and ordered an old 
pitch-pot, that held about ten quarts, to be made 
clean : my carpenter, by my direction, fitted to it a 
cover of fir deal, about tw.o inches thick, very clofe ; 
fo that it was eafily made tight by luting it with 
pafte. We had a hole thro’ the cover, in which 
was fixed a wooden pipe nearly perpendicular. This 
I call the flill-head : it was bored with an augre of 
j i inch diameter, to within three inches of the top 
or extremity, where it was left folid. We made a 
hole in this, towards the upper part of its cavity (with 
a proper angle) to receive a long wooden pipe, which 
we fixed therein, to defeend to the tub in which the 
worm fhould be placed. Here again I was at a lofs ; 
for we had no lead pipe, nor any fheet-Iead, on 
board. I thought, if I could contrive a ffrait pipe to 
go thro’ a large cafk of cold water, it might anfwer 
the end of a worm. We then cut a pewter difh, 
and made a pipe two feet long ; and at three or four 
trials (for we did not let a little difeourage us) we 
made it quite tight. We bored a hole thro’ a cafk, 
with a proper defeent, in which we fixed the pewter 
pipe, and made both holes in the cafk tight, and 
filled it with fea-water : the pipe ftuck without the 
cafk 
