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the remainder they employed in a dif- 
ferent manner, equally ufefnl. They foon 
faw the necefTity cf keeping up a con- 
tinual fire in fo cold a climate, and found 
that if it fhouid unfortunately go out, 
they had no means of lighting; it a^ain ; 
for though they had a freel and flints, 
yet they wanted both match and tin- 
der. 
The American favsges have hit on an 
expedient for procuring fire, by rubbing a 
fquare piece of hard wood between 
two pieces of a fofter kind; which being 
prefled clofe by the knees, are at length 
heated by the friction, and focn after 
fmoke 
Alps and adjacent country, where thofe afflicted 
with a pleurify, or other diibrders occafioned by an 
obftruction in the circulation of the fluids, are or- 
dered to take the blood of Bouquetins, cr Wild 
Goats ; which though it be a dry fubflance, yet 
retains fo much of its volatile nature, as to produce 
the moft happy efFecls, in bringing on firft a gentle 
perfpi ration, then copious fweats. 
