Excerpt from An Account of an Useful Discovery to Distill Double the Usual Quantity of Seawater, by Blowing Showers of Air Up Through the Distilling Liquor: To Have the Distilled Water Perfectly Fresh and Good by Means of a Little Chalk, and Na Account of the Great Benefit of Ventilators in Many Instances, in Preserving the Health and Lives of People, in Slave and Other Transport Ships; Which Were Read Before Occafion, Of many laudable Attempts to make Sea-water frelh and Wholfome; but all the Attempts and Difcoveries hitherto made, have laboured under this great and material Objection, viz. The great Quan tity of Fuel that was necefi'ary to difiill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.