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vided for, if Sylley were not fubdued as well as 
Cornwall. 
VIII. An Account of Mr. Appleby ’.f Procefs 
to make Sea-kVater freftn with fame Expe- 
riments therewith ; communicated to the 
Royal Society, by W. Watfon, F. R. S. 
Read Feb 
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HE making fea- water frefh has 
been frequently attempted, and fe- 
veral accounts thereof, from time to time, been com- 
municated to the Royal Society. I thought it there- 
fore not improper to lay before you Mr. Appleby’s 
procefs for this purpofe, in order to its being pre- 
served in the journal-books of the Society. To this 
I have fubjoined fome experiments upon the water 
prepared in Mr. Appleby’s manner, made by Mr. 
Michael Clark, operator at Apothecaries Hall, a per- 
fon extremely well verfed in the theory and practice of 
chemiftry, at the defire, and under the infpedtion > 
of the cenfors of the college of phyficians, to whom 
Mr. Appleby’s procefs was referred by the lords com- 
miffioners of the admiralty. 
Mr. Appleby’s procefs. 
I NTO twenty gallons of fea-water put fix ounces of 
a fixed alcali, prepared with quick-lime as ftrong 
as lapis infernalis , and fix ounces of bones calcined 
to 
