t'luniboldi's Travels -."^Curing of Meat. ISQ 



Wocks as contain bonc3 in a state of good preservation, with 

 a promise of returning them, if desired, after they have been 

 examined. The names of the persons uho choose to pre- 

 eent articles of this kind will be inscribed oil them when 

 publicly exhibited, and rewards have been offered to those 

 labourers who succeed in preserving bones entire. 



A work by Mr. Parkinson, of Hoxton, on the organic 

 remains of the former world, is in considerable forward- 

 ness. The first part, on the fossils of the vegetable king- 

 dom, illustrated with coloured plates, in quarto, will, we 

 understand, be published on the Ist of June next. 



Humboldt's travels. 



M. Humboldt, the Prussian minister at Rome, received, 

 in the begimiing of February, letters from his brother, dated 

 Valladolid, in Mechoacan, September 24 , 1 803 . This cele- 

 brated traveller had descended into the crater of the volcano 

 of Torcello, which still burns, to the depth of seventy toises, 

 being only about fifteen toises from the bottom. He states 

 that the examination of this vokano, which has existed only 

 since the 2<)th of September 1 750, will enable him to throw 

 considerable light on the nature of these terrible phjeno- 

 mena. His letters do not give so positive hope of his speedy 

 return as that of the Uth of August. He says he waits, 

 before he embarks, for a good vessel, and the total cessation 

 ot that malady known by the name of the mwiito ries^ro, 

 w hich at that time occasioned great raA^age at La. Vera-Cruz, 

 These two circumstances, he adds, may retard his departure 

 till the spring. He and his fellow-travellers were in perfect 

 health. 



CURING OF MEAT. 



The following curious receipt for curing fresh provisions 

 to carry abroad, has been tried by a gentleman who has 

 twice made the experiment on a voyage to Archangel, and 

 once to the West Indies : — Let the meat, whether beef or 

 mutton, be fresh killed, and when hung to be perfectly 

 Cold, let it be cut up in quarters : lay each on a block, and 

 sprinkle it over with ingredients prepared in the following 

 inanner : Lignum vitae fine chips one pound, common salt 

 four ounces, coarse sugar four ounces, salt prunella half an 

 ounce: when it has been well sprinkled in, close the whole 

 in sheet lead ; which done, lay it in a chest, and, as each 

 lot is laid in, cover it with fresh sawdust ; ram it well dowix 

 and cover the whole tlose. Meat, particularly line fat beef, 

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