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The cork acorns, that were fent to Georgia, were 
inclofed in the fame fubflances with the foregoing, 
and put into a box filled with dry fand, quite full, 
and well fattened : this was put into a tight calk, 
among papers and wearing apparel, and flowed in 
the upper part of the hold of the fhip. 
While I was making thefe experiments, I wrote to 
Dr. Linnaeus, ofUpfal, for his opinion of them, and 
for his method of preferving feeds in long voyages. I 
have lately received his anfwer ; in which he confi- 
ders the great danger that attends feeds in warm voy- 
ages, in the fame light with governor Ellis, and has 
communicated to me a very probable method of pre- 
ferving feeds in long voyages, which, he fays, has 
never failed. The following is an extract of his let- 
ter to me, dated the 8th of Dec. 1758, from Upfal. 
“ Seeds may be brought from abroad in a grow- 
u ing date, if we attend to the following method 
“ Put your feeds into a cylindrical glafs bottle, and 
“ fill up the interflices with dry fand, to prevent their 
<c lying too clofe together, and that they may per- 
“ fpire freely through the fand ; then cork the bottle, 
“ or tie a bladder over the mouth of it. Prepare a 
<c glafs veffel, fo much larger than that which con- 
cc tains the feeds, that, when it is fufpended in it, 
<c there may be a vacant fpace on all fides of about 
u two inches diflance between both glades, for the 
,c following mixture ; four parts of nitre, and one- 
“ fifth part, of equal parts, of common fait, and fal 
cc ammoniac : thefe mufl be well pounded, and 
“ mixed together, and the fpaces all round between 
“ the outward and inward glades well filled with 
