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of fulph 



whofe noxioufnefs and feptic quality is Well known, preser 



The Jlefi is falted in order to prefe 



the long 



b 



common 



fait is by no means 



feptic, when mixed with animal fub 



VATION 

 OF MARI. 

 NERS, 



ilances. The latter when dead, by an intefline motion of their ele- 



mentary integrant parts 



gradually diflblved -, the volatile par 



of phlogiflon, and acids volatilized by phlogifton fly off; then 



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the volatile alkaline parts leave the mafs; and the remainder is i 

 magma, nearly related to a hepar fulphuris ; which after a flill 

 longer period of time becomes an alkali, or an abforbent earth. 

 The addition of the large quantity of fait cannot prevent the fleih 



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from real putrefacftion, but only retards its progrefs. We found, 

 that our meat, which had been really the befl of its kind, was 

 become in fad very little better than putrid; all its fat 

 had been corroded by the fait, and its 

 raw and boiled flate, was extremely offenli' 



fmell 



both 



a 



b 



towed in a net of 



rop 



though 

 h 



had 



's for twenty-four hours at the 

 ftern of the fhip 5 by which operation a great proportion of the 

 faltnefs, together with part of the llench had been carried off, and 

 the bare tough mufcular fibres ftrongly impregnated with Mt alone 

 remained. The gelatinous part, which is the chief nutriment in^ 



d nothing was left but a ftrongly alkaline part. 



€efh, was all loft 



4 K 2 



which 



* Mr. Sage Analyfe des bles. Paris, 17.76. 8vo. p. xo5. feq. 



