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38 tion of the veel; for whenever we have put out to ea, after having lain a hort time at anchor, I have always been diordered for two or three days as much as I was after our departure from Bret. The ailors advie one, in thee caes, to endeavour to eat, notwithtanding the loathing of food that always accompanies this diorder. But this piece of advice it is very difficult to follow; for beides the pain produced by the action of wallowing, the preence of food in the tomach increaes the nauea, and the vomiting that upervenes is till more ditreing.

Diluting liquors, taken in mall quantities at a time, o as not to burden the tomach, have always afforded me the mot relief. Lukewarm water, nightly weetened with ugar, is the drink which I have generally ued, as it is the eaiet to be procured at ea.

We had, however, everal perons on board, who, though they had never been at ea before, experienced not the mallet inconvenience from the toing of the hip. Such a contitution is very deirable for thoe who undertake long voyages; for it is impoible to decribe the diagreeable enations that attend this pamodic affection, which, as it operates upon every part of the frame, produces uch a general depreion of its powers,