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served in brandy, were destined as a supplement, 

 in the sequel, to what I had not been able to 

 describe. But a long immersion in the fluid, and 

 frequent transportation from place to place, had 

 affected the viscera to such a degree, that they 

 were almost equally livid, mollified, and mace- 

 rated. The subject in highest preservation, pre- 

 sented to me the following details : 



"to 



On being taken out of the brandy, this jerbo 

 weighed four ounces six grains. As it was very 

 much impregnated with the fluid, its real weight 

 cojld be, at most, four ounces. 



At the aperture of the abdomen, the brandy 

 filled the cavity of it : the altered viscera had lost 

 their natural colour. 



The stomach was not perceptible. 



The small intestines presented, on the first sight, 

 only confused lineaments, so sunk were they; the 

 greater were somewhat more distinct : the colon 

 formed in the right side two spiral windings appa- 

 rent outwardly; the rectum descended almost in a 

 straight line to the left. 



Finally, the bladder, quite compressed, shewed 

 itself in the under part. 



The 



