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“ driving to work that, which they received fo much 
“ benefit by. We found this good effedt from ven- 
tilation, that though there were near 200 men on 
“ board, for almofl a year, yet I landed them all 
“ well in Georgia, notwithffanding they were preffed 
“ men, and delivered me out of gaols, with di- 
“ dempers upon them. This is what I believe but 
“ few tranfports, or any other flrips, can brag of] 
“ nor did I ever meet the like good-luck before j 
“ which, next to Providence, I impute to the bene- 
“ fit received by the ventilators. It is to be re- 
marked, that we, who lay wind-bound, for four 
“ months, with our expedition fleet, which foon 
“ after invaded France, were very healthy all the 
time, when they were very fickly in all the fliips 
of that expedition. 
4^. “ This certainly occafioned all kind of grain 
“ provifions to keep better and longer from wee- 
“ vels than otherwife they would have done; and 
‘‘ other kinds of provifions received benefit from the 
“ coolnefs and frellinefs in the air of the fhip, which 
“ was caufcd by ventilation. ^ 
4,7. Mr. Cramond alfo informs me, that he found 
the good effedt of ventilators on board a flave-fhip 
of his with 392 flaves, twelve of which were taken 
on board, juft before they failed from Guinea, ill of 
a flux, which twelve all died ; but the reft, with all 
the Europeans in the fliip, arrived well at Buenos 
Ayres, 
