State Library of NSW
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To Brazil
Octr. 1768
All kinds of Leather became mouldy Portfolios & truncks coverd with black leather were almost white soon after this mould adheerd to almost every thing all the books in my Library became mouldy so that they were obligd to be wiped to preserve them about this time we came into the calms which we met with earlier than usual the thermometer was then at 83 & we sufferd from the heat & damp together Bathing however kept me in perfect health tho many of the ship company were ill of bilious complaints which however were but of short duration
This continued till we got the S.E. trade when or a little before the glass fell to 88 & soon to 78 and 79 but the dampness continued yet to that I cheifly attribute the ill success of the Electrical experiments
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