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Electricity

it would not contain Electricity at all.

The situation on board a ship would not allow the making use of a fire at least to warm the whole machine as should have been done & would have been a great satisfaction but the motion of the ship the distance of the galley from the Cabbin & the number of people who are constantly busy these made that impossible

The dampness of the air complaind of fore has not been observd now for the first time Piso in his account of the Brazils p. 5 mentions it & says that victuals &c, which have kept well before spoil immediately here this therefore may account for the general opinion of Electrical machines failing to work when near the line as the fault could not be in my machine which workd remarkably well in London & full as well as I expected in Madeira

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