on the IJland of Minorca. 4.^x 
diftance between this ifland and Africa, will fcarcely be- 
lieve, that the air can carry with it, fo far, any other qua- 
lity than the warmth attending the feafon of the year. 
Gibraltar, neaier Africa, and more Southerly than we are, 
is not lubjebt to tertians , nor are fome places even in this 
ill and. The caufes therefore mu if be fought for on the 
fpot. In a fituation, fuch as I have defcribed ours to be, you 
may believe, that fhade and a plentiful fupply of frefh 
fucculent culinary plants mult be very deiirable. On fo 
di y a rock, an artificial fupply of moift ure muff become 
neceffary, efpecially in a country where there feldom is 
rain from May to October. It is not an eafy matter to 
keep a due mean in the ule of whatever experience thews 
to be neceffary. If a little does good, we are apt to con- 
clude, that a great deal will do more good: thus, I think, 
it fares with us in regard to the ufe of water in our gar- 
dens. In order to have a garden, it is neceffary here to 
have a di aw-w ell. The drawing of water is the labour of 
an afs ; and, as the labour is not hard, the bealf is kept at 
it pretty conftantly, and thus plenty of water is drawn 
up. As the water is hard, and is much colder than the 
temperature of the air, it is kept in cifierns for fome time, 
expofed to the Sun, till it acquires the temperature of the 
air, and thus becomes more friendly to vegetation than if 
ufed immediately on being drawn up. Having thus ob- 
tained plenty of water, they bellow it mofl copioufly on 
their gardens. Suppofe yourfelf landed at St. Philip’s in 
this feafon of the year, on a dry, parched rock, and that 
you were told, that the rock was uniformly the fame all the 
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