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preferving thefe Animals, may perhaps 

 not be unworthy of a communication. 



When the Snake is killed, it muft firft 

 be warned clean, and freed from all filth 

 and naftinefs ; then it is to be put into 

 a glafs of a proper fize, the tail firft, and 

 afterwards the reft of the body, wind- 

 ing it in fpiral afcending circles, and dif- 

 pofing the back, vtfhich is always the 

 rnoft beautiful, outwardly. A thread, 

 connected to a fmall glafs bead, is, by the 

 help of a needle, to be pafled thro* the 

 upper jaw from within outwardly, and 

 then thro' the cork of the bottle, where 

 it muft be faftened : by this means the 

 head will be drawn into a natural pof- 

 ture, and the mouth kept open by the 

 bead, whereby the teeth, &c. will be 

 difcovered : the glafs is then to be filled 

 with rum, and the cork fealed down, 

 to prevent its exhalation. A label, con- 

 taining the name and properties of the 



Snake, 



