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blamed myklf for not having ftill along with ale

(as I had often thought no flaip fhould be without
one). But it was now too late and there wet no.
milky to contrive louse air.aas for our prefervation.
I was not a firanger to Appleby's method I had
alfo a pamphlet wrote by Dr. Butler, intituted,
reify Method of procuring of frelb Wan at Sta.
And I imagined, that foap might fupply the place
of capital lees, mentioned by him. I now let my-
fell at work, ao contrive and ordeved an old
pitch-pot, that held about ten quarts, to be made
clean my carpenter, by my direetion, fitted to it
cover of fir deal, about two inches chick, very aloft ;
fo that it was eafily made tight by luting it with
pafie. We had a hole thee the cover, in which
was fixed a wooden pipe nearly perpendicular. This
I call the Rill-head : it was bored with an augrc of
tI inch diameter, to within three inches of the top
or extremity, where it was left folid. We made
hole in this, towards the upper part of its cavity (with
a proper angle) to receive a long wooden pipe, which
we fixed therein, to defraud to the tub in which the
worm Should be placed. Here again I was at a Infi
for wa had no lead pipe, nor my flieet-lead, on
board. I thought, if I mold contrive a knit pipe to
go Jiro' large calk of cold water, it might naiad
the end of a worm. We then OA pewter difh,
and made pipe two feet long s and at three or four
trials (for we did not let little &I's:outage us) we
made s.pnse tight. Wc botad hole tbro' a mfk,
with proper defiant, in which we fixed the pewter
pipe, and made both holes ia the calls tight, and
filled it With feu-water : the pipc flfick withom the
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