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SHORT DIRECTIONS 



For Lovers and Promoters of 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



In what manner Specimens of all Kinds may be 

 colle6led, preserved, and transported to distant 

 Countries. 



I. A L L Quadrupeds of a great bulk must be skinned 

 JTx. as soon as possible after death ; the tail, claws, 

 teeth, horns, ears, bristles on the nose and chfn, 

 are carefully to be preserved ; the hair of the fur as little 

 stained with blood as possible ; the opening is to be as 

 small as it can conveniently be without hindering the ope- 

 ration ; the inside of the skin may then be washed or 

 brushed over with a liquor, made of an ounce of Sal Ammo- 

 niac, dissolved in a quart of water, in which afterwards two 

 ounces of corrosive sublimate Mercury must be put : or 

 four ounces of Arsenic may be boiled in two quarts, or 

 two quarts and a half of water, till all or the greater part 

 of it be dissolved, and the liquor may serve for the same 

 purpose to wash the inside of the skin : then the whole 

 cavity must be stuffed with oakhum or tow, likewise im- 

 bibed with the above liquor, afterwards dried and mixed 



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