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them off the fire, add the arsenic, and when luke 1 

 the powdered camphor, mixing the whole well toget 



Put the compound into a conveniently wide moi 

 jar, or glazed earthen pot, taking care to secure it 

 with Madder and twine. 



I have given the ahove recipes for making arse 

 soap, because it is what I was taught to use as the 

 and accepted preparation for preserving fish. I si 

 not however fail to add a caution about its use, wh 

 may as well give in the words of that eminent natui 

 Waterton, as they have frightened me into trying 

 solution of corrosive sublimate. He has evidently f 

 it answer with snakes ; I conclude therefore that it c 

 to be equally successful with fish. In the cases in \ 

 I have already tried it I have, as yet, no fault to 

 As this solution of corrosive sublimate set Wat< 

 thinking how to restore the life-like forms of birds 

 animals, so it and he together have set me thinking 

 to restore them in fish and snakes, which when sti 

 are too frequently mis-shapen and shrunken. Howe 1 

 is only a crude idea at present, so I will wait till I 

 thoroughly worked it out, and meanwhile quote Wate 



"A preparation of arsenic is frequently used; 1: 

 "is very dangerous, and sometimes attended with la 

 "table consequences. I knew a naturalist, by : 

 "Howe, in Cayenne, in French Guiana, who had 

 "sixteen of his teeth. He kept them in a box, and sb 

 "them to me. On opening the lid, 'These fine teeth 

 "he 'once belonggd to my jaws : they all dropped 01 



