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Jidei ed of as the other. Therefore if you 
can conveniently make a Cittern in the 
bottom or on the fide of your Cellar that 
will hold water, either of Stone or Brick 
well cemented, and if of Brick, plaiftered 
with Plaifter of Paris, or with a Cement 
made of Linfeed-oyl and Lime newly flak- 
ned, with a little Cotton-wool beat into ir, 
and can, as occatton requires, iupply it 
with a defcent of cool Spring-water ■, your 
way to evacuate the lame, will be with a 
(mall Hand-pump, fuch as they ufually ule 
in (mall Vettels at Sea, and may be had in 
Maritime Towns at an ealie rate, with 
which you may pump your Cittern or Con- 
fervatoiy dry once a vveek, oftner or more 
ieldom, as the warmth or coldnefs of the 
Air feems to require; and fupply it again 
from your Spring, or in defect thereof from 
fome Well or Pump, whence you draw 
your Water for other occafions. But if 
your Cittern be made in the Ground un¬ 
der your Cellar, you need only lay your 
Brick or Stone in Clay well tempered, and 
laid thick under the Brick or Stone, and on 
the (ides of the Cittern. 
Where you have not the convcnicncy of 
Water, or are unwilling to be at the ex¬ 
pence, as in fome places it may require, of 
M making 
