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XII. An eafy Method to diftill frejh TVater 
from Salt IV ater at Sea \ by Capt. New! and. 
Read M^rph 1 2, y g 1 HE materials necefiary for this 
1 procefs are the following ; a cop- 
per or iron pot of 1 5 or 20 gallons, an empty calk, 
fome Iheet lead, a fmall jar, a few wood-allies or 
foap, and billet-wood for fewel. See Tab. V. fig. 6. 
where A is the ftill or pot ; B the pipe or worm ; 
C the worm-tub; D the receiver; EE the fagongor 
fire-place ; and j the plug-hole to put in water. 
First, In order to make my pipe or worm B, 
I took as much Iheet lead as I thought was fuffi- 
cient for the purpofe, and beat it on a fponge ftaff to 
make it round : this being done, I was fomewhat at 
a lofs for folder ; however, I fupplied that defici- 
ency with good pafte and dungerec (or thin canvas) 
laid well on, and over that, a fecond coat of pafte 
and dungerec, and then a covering of fmall cered 
line hove clofe together and very tight round, over 
which I put my third coat of pafte and dungerec, 
which I found, to my great fatisfa&ion, was fufficient 
to keep it from blowing. The next thing was to 
fix my pipe B in the pot or ftill head A. When I had 
well fecured the pot in the fagong EE. I filled it 
about two thirds full of fait water (about 15 gallons), 
with which I mixt two or three double handfulls of 
wood-allies, and ftirred it well together, in order to 
foften the fait water ; I then fixt the lid (which was 
made 
