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To Purify Water in a Cistern

small-pox will blister, and decompose with in a cistern will render the foulest water sweet great rapidity; besides this, they will prevent and pure. (See No. 1701.) the spread of the disease.

As a disinfectant they have no equal, when properly used; but in dry seasons, any water may be of high

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