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may be fiqucczcd together, pressing out the watery par- 

 ticles, dr>'ing these small cakes, and then putting them 

 in the abovementioned cerate paper. Or small seeds mixed 

 with dry sand, and put in cerate paper, packed in pro- 

 portionate glasses, and covered with a bladder or leather, 

 and all such glasses again packed in a vessel, filled with a 

 mixture, consisting of half culinary salt, the other half 

 of two parts of saltpetre, and one part of sal ammoniac, 

 will keep the seeds cool, and preserve their vegetative 

 power. 



Plants or shrubs that are to be transported, must 

 be taken out with a lump of soil covering the roots, 

 which must be wrapped in wet moss, surrounded with 

 paper or a Russian bast-mat and packthread ; plants 

 thus packed may be put in a chest or box upon a 

 layer of three inches deep wet moss in close rows, fill- 

 ing up all vacancies with moss. Some holes or slips in 

 the lid of the box, covered W'ith bast-mats or sail-cloth, 

 will give them air, and a direction must be fixed on 

 top. to keep the lid uppermost, and the box in an open 

 but shady airy place, out of the spray of the sea : the 

 same caution, in regard to air and sea, must be taken 

 with the boxes containing seeds. 



XII. Minerals, fossils, and petrefa6lions of all kinds, 

 ought to be wrapt separately in papers, and the whole 

 colleflion packed in hay, tow, hemp, or cotton, in a box, 

 so that none of the specimens may touch or rub one 

 another when the box is transported by land-carriage, 

 or shaken by the rolling of the sea. Clays, earths, 

 sands, and salts, are best preserved in glasses, or little 

 glazed gally-pots covered with a bladder. Mineral wa- 

 ters may be safely filled in glass bottles, immediately af- 

 ter corked up and pitched, or covered with putty round 

 the cork. 



XIII. 



