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weather and fun, they are therefore covered with 
different kinds of matter, according to the ufes of the 
different parts of the mart. 
The head and heel parts of the mads are always 
covered with tar mixed into a confidence with lamp 
black, and this being frequently repeated, it forms 
at lad a covering of the thicknefs of a crown, and 
fometimes a quarter of an inch ; through which 
as the Sun cannot pierce, it is commonly without 
daw or rent j but the middlemod part, upon which 
the fail dips up and down, is always rubbed with 
tallow, or greafe, or hogs lard, to make it more ' 
dippery ; and this being frequently fcraped off, and 
anointed afrefh, and in hot weather, or the fummer 
time, it becomes extremely thin, being melted off, 
and frequently and in many places rubbed off by the 
dipping up and down of the fail and parrel, which 
expofes it fo much, that the Sun fometimes rends it 
from end to end almod, and fo deep as to reach the 
centre of the mad, and an inch wide. But as the 
yard, which extends the lowermod fail upon any of 
the mads, is commonly carried at the fame height, 
the middlemod part of this mad is ufually covered 
with rofin mixed with tallow or oil, and fometimes 
turpentine mixed with the fame ; and this being foft, 
cracks and melts with the Sun, and fo leaves fome 
places of the mad bare, and this will rend and fplit alfo 
like the top-mad and top-gallant- mad, that are co- 
vered with tallow or greafe, but not quite fo large 
rents. 
We are now to obferve, that no part of the top- 
gallant mad or top-mad, that was covered with the 
lamp black were touched with the thunder, the 
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