Note 13 — SIR H. NICOLAS’S HISTORY OF THE NAVY.11

If Sir H. Nicolas has no other authority for this fact of its being extinguished by vinegar than the extract which he afterwards gives from Vinesauf,—it does not stand on a very secure basis. “This fire, with a deadly stench and livid flames, consumes flint and iron! and unquenchable by water, can only be extinguished by sand or vinegar.” The story about the vinegar comes, we see, in very suspicious company.