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  <dc:title>Papers on desalination by Zachariah [Zachary] Williams</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Proposal for the revealing a secret of a machine invented by Williams to be used at sea for making salt-water fresh and drinkable. Together with the inventor's letter to the Lords of the Admiralty on the subject.

Includes an original cover endorsed: 'Appendix no.3. Papers relating to the proposal of Zach: Williams for the Longitude'; and in pencil: 'Making salt water fresh and drinkable'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1753</dc:date>
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