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ble covered with salt. We then set aside, and salt in the same 

 manner, in order to be consumed, the head cut in two, the neck di- 

 vided into five or six pieces, and the end of the sides ; all the rest 

 of the animal is to be divided into portions that may be easily intro- 

 duced into the stone pots, where they are to be placed in layers, be- 

 tween which is to be strewn a bed of salt ; care is to be used to cov- 

 er the pots as tightly as possible, either with parchments, slates, or 

 stone plates and mortar of loam mixed with cows' hair, and to keep 

 them in a cool place. 



The raw flesh of animals may likewise be easily preserved by 

 cutting it in very small slices, and keeping it immersed for an hour 

 in a ley of soda rendered more caustic by lime mixed with salt and 

 a little saltpetre ; it will be sufficient to expose these slices to the air 

 to dry them, or to keep them in a dry place. If, in killing the ani- 

 mal, a certain quantity of blood should be collected, it may be em- 

 ployed directly for the nourishment of hogs ;* it will suffice then to 

 dilute it with water, and to mix it with the ahments commonly given 

 them ; there is even no inconvenience in making it serve for the 

 nourishment of man, as is done in Sweden, by kneading it with 

 dough, or adding it to fat hashed up and seasoning it properly to 

 make a sort of black pudding. 



We know that there need be no fear of any of the affections of 

 which the animals may have died to those who feed upon the flesh 

 of them ; we may be assured of this from very numerous examples, 

 both in the provisioning of armies, and in the sales made by the 

 keepers of cattle to the butchers, during the prevalence of very fatal 

 affections among animals. These different facts prove that the food 

 from animals dead of diseases has never occasioned the least evil to- 

 persons wljo have eaten of it. The fact has even been proved, that 

 the flesh of animals dying of contagious diseases, and which we have 

 before advised to inter without skinning them, has done no injury to 

 those who have been nourished by it, although these animals had 



* It is pretended that hogs, when they have been some time fed upon blood or 

 flesh, become prone to run after children, chickens, &c. ; but there need be little 

 fear of these accidents, since hogs should always be separated from other animals 

 of the farm yard, and, for a stronger reason, from children : besides, the animal 

 matters will become mixed with many ordinary aliments : finally, if there is any 

 fear of these results, it will be easy to boil the blood with water, before mixing it 

 all with bran, potatoes, &c. 



