Note * — VOLUME II. (continued 19)
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Pliny long ago knew that extraordinary quality of the oil, and in our times it has been confirmed by the experiments of the immortal Franklin. Mr. Osorezkowsky, the celebrated Russian academician, experienced the same on his physical voyage, and our modern seamen in general are no strangers to that effect of the oil, and frequently make use of it in dangerous surges.
“Osorezkowsky” is the German spelling of the name Озерецковский (Ozeretskovsky).
† This letter is the same which is prefixed to the beginning of these Memoirs.
Footnotes in the book versions of the Victim have “the first volume” in place of “the beginning”.