BINN, or BIN. The pease and oatmeal, used at sea, are apt to spoil in casks. Dr Hales proposes to prevent this, by putting them into large bins, with false bottoms of hair-cloths laid on bars, whereby fresh air may be blown upwards through them, at proper times, with small ventilators.
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