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On the POWER o/" FIXED CAUSTIC ALKALINE 

 SALTS to preferve the FLESH of ANIMALS from 

 PUTREFACTION. In a Letter to the Reverend 

 GEORGE GRAY DON, "^c. from the Reverend HUGH 

 HAMILTON, D.D. &c. 



SIR, 



X HE ingenious paper you communicated to the Royal Irifh Read April 

 Academy, on the fillies that have been found enclofed in ftone 

 in the quarry at Monte Boica, brought to my recolledion fome 

 obfervations I had made many years ago, on the power that 

 alkaline falts, even v^^hen highly cauftic, have to preferve animal 

 fubflances. I mentioned to you fome of thefe obfervations, and 

 you have defired I fhould give you a fuller account of them, 

 as you thought they in fome meafure coincided with the theory 

 you had delivered, concerning the prefervation of the more folid , 

 parts of the fifties found in quarries of lime-ftone. 



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