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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 sidc^ with the above 

 liquor, and dried ; and the crevices shut up vith 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, 



