CHAPTER VI. 
On Quadrupeds. 
AS it is often impossible to convey home, the 
quadrupeds a traveller may meet with in 
visiting foreign lands, it becomes necessary to 
take off and preserve their skins; many of 
which, especially those from newly discovered 
countries, interest us extremely, either by 
their beauty or their novelty. 
THERE are few who have not seen a poul- 
terer take the skin from a rabbit, or a butcher 
perform the same operation on a sheep or 0x; 
a lesson from either of those persons would be 
of use to the traveller. In taking the skin 
