Note 86 — Chapter LI
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It may be from this Principle, that in the East, Liquids are kept cool by being hung in the Shade, in the open Air, suspended in wet Cloths: there being a continual Breeze and Succession of cool dry Spunges (as it were) of Air, in Contact with the wetted Cloths, whose Moisture will thus be more quickly evaporated.