An Account of a Method of Preserving Water, at Sea, From Putrefaction, and of Restoring to the Water Its Original Pleasantness and Purity, by a Cheap ... in Large Quantities, With Fixed Air, fo - Softcover

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Excerpt from An Account of a Method of Preserving Water, at Sea, From Putrefaction, and of Restoring to the Water Its Original Pleasantness and Purity, by a Cheap and Easy Process: To Which Is Added a Mode of Impregnating Water, in Large Quantities, With Fixed Air, for Medicinal Uses, on Board Ships, and in Hospitals; And Likewise a Process for the Preparation of Artificial Yeast

How great the contrafl: between this me lancholy defcription, and the pleafingnarra tive which the ever to be lamented Captain Cook has given offa voyage equally long in its duration, and more variable in plirnate. In this voyage, in which he pafi'ed through all the..cli,mates from, 52'deg. N. To 71 S. With a Company of one hundred and eighteen men, and the performance of which employed no lets a period than three years and eighteen days, this prudent, this humane Commander loft only one man by difeafe; and it even. Appears that this man carried 'on board With him the..pri1nary fymptoms of the diforder which, afterwards, °defiroyed him.

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