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might be very useful for taking in a quantity of orange, lemon or lime Juice, when you touch at any place abroad where those Fruits grow;  for the directions on this head see the Proposal, P.82.  Besides the Juices, I would recommend to you to carry out a quantity of Molosses, and two or three pounds of the best Chio and Strasburgh Turpentine, in order to brew Beer with, your daily drink, when your Water becomes bad.  The rates for brewing this kind of Beer you will find in the appendix of the Proposal.  In this case you will want Yeast, and the manner of preserving this at sea, you may also meet with in the Appendix, p. [indecipherable].  So small a quantity of Molosses as two Gallons, or two Gallons and a half, are said to be sufficient for making an hogshead of tolerably good Beer.  And this method of brewing Beer at sea, will be peculiarly useful in case you should have stinking water on board;  for I find by Experience that the smell of stinking water will be entirely destroyed by the process of fermentation.  I sincerely wish you and your companions a most prosperous Voyage and a safe return to old England, loaded with all the honours you so justly deserve;  and am,

Sir,
Your most humble servant,
N. Hulme
Hatton-Garden,
Augt. 1st 1768

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