(30°) 
with a powder of four parts of Tobacco-sand, four parts 
of pounded black Pepper, one part of burnt Alum, and 
one part of corrosive Sublimate or Arsenic: lastly, the 
whole is to be sewed with a thread dipt in the above liquor, 
and the skin thus stuffed must be gently dried, and a day 
after put into an oven, whose heat must be so gentle, that 
a hair, or a feather put for trial’s sake into it, will not 
crisp, or curl, or bend; and thus it will be perfectly 
dried: the eyes may be filled up with putty, which, when 
dry, will look like the white part of an eye, and will bear 
painting, to express with oil-colours the iris and pupil of 
the natural eye of the animal in question. The whole 
animal must be put into a box, filled with tow or moss, or 
oakum steeped in the above liquor, and perfectly dried. 
The box must be brushed over on both sides with the above 
liquor, and dried ; and the crevices shut up with pieces of 
paper pasted over; the paste must be made either with the 
arsenical liquor, or that made with corrosive sublimate 
instead of common water; and I can assure these precau- 
tions, though cheap and simple, will keep the animal in 
the best preservation on the longest voyages, and for many 
years in a collection. This way of preparing and securing 
the boxes for sending specimens abroad, the prepared 
oakum or tow, the powder and liquor mentioned above, 
are always to be understood when I afterwards speak of 
prepared boxes, prepared tow, moss, or oakum, and pre- 
paring powder or liquor. 
II. Small Quadrupeds may be plunged into a keg of 
brandy, rack or rum, and thus sent over: observe how- 
ever to put them first into the coarser kind of spirits ; 
and after they have been therein for a while, and parted 
with some impurities, you must put them into another 
vessel with new clean rum or brandy, into which some 
alum may be put; and they will keep thus better, and 
be less subject to change or decay. 
III. Birds must be opened at the vent, their entrails, 
lungs, 
