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" you judge proper. Nothing now remains to be 

 added but the eyes. With your little stick make 

 a hollow in the cotton within the orbit, and 

 introduce the glass eyes through the orbit. 

 Adjust the orbit to them, as in nature, and that 

 requires no other fastener. 



Your close inspection of the eyes of animals, 

 will already have informed you, that the orbit is 

 capable of receiving a much larger body than 

 that part of the eye which appears within it 

 when in life. So that, were you to proportion 

 your eye to the size the orbit is capable of 

 receiving, it would be far too large. Inattention 

 to this, has caused the eyes of every specimen, 

 in the best cabinets of natural history, to be out 

 of all proportion. To prevent this, contract the 

 orbit, by means of a very small delicate needle 

 and thread, at that part of it farthest from the 

 beak. This may be done with such nicety, that 

 the stitch cannot be observed ; and thus you 

 have the artificial eye in true proportion. 



After this, touch the bill, orbits, feet, and 

 former oil-gland at the root of the tail, with the 

 solution, and then you have given to the hawk 

 every thing necessary, except attitude, and a 

 proper degree of elasticity, two qualities very 

 essential. 



Procure any common ordinary box, fill one 

 end of it, about three-fourths up to the top, with 



