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the intended alterations will render her if not absolutely incapable at least exceedingly unfit to undertake the voyage which I have proposd to the Publick to perform
She will in the first place be deep wasted a fault which the Captains of India ships are so sensible of that the largest number of them are built flush tho they are only to Encounter in their Passage round the Cape of Good Hope the Seas which we are to be involv'd with during our whole circumnavigation
in the next place the people near thirty of whom usd to live under the deck which is to be cut off will all be crowded under her gun deck which in her is by no means airy such a disposition would in all probability Cause putrid distempers even in a passage to the west Indies how much more likely