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The impreffions of plants well taken off upon 

 paper, look very little inferior to the belt draw- 

 ings, and may be done with very little trouble. 

 For this purpofe, fome printer's ink (z), and a pair 

 of printer's balls, fuch as are ufed for laying 

 the ink on types, are neceffary. After rubbing 

 thefe balls with a little of the ink, lay the plant 

 betwixt them, andprefs it fo as to give it fuffici- 

 ent colour ; then take the plant and lay it care- 

 fully on a meet of paper, and prefs it with the 

 hand, to give the impreffion of the plant to the 

 paper, which may be afterwards coloured accord- 

 ing to nature ; a piece of blotting-paper may be 

 placed betwixt the plant and the hand, to prevent 

 the latter from being dirtied by the ink. 



An effectual method of fending a branch of 

 any plant, with the flowers and parts of fructifica- 

 tion entire and perfect, is to put them in bottles 

 of brandy, rum, or arrack ; but the colour of 

 the plant is often injured. 



Corals, corallines, fponges, &c. inhabitants of 

 the fea, are found in confiderable variety near 

 the coafts of iflands and continents, particularly 

 in hot climates. Some of thefe are very tender 

 and brittle when dry, and fhould therefore be 

 carefully packed up in fand, in order to keep them 

 "fteady, or placed betwixt papers in the manner 

 of an hortus-liccus. 



In hot climates, the infeQs are very rapacious 

 and I have feen the flneft fan-corals, and others 

 of a foft texture when firfh taken out of the fea, 



(/) Where this cannot be procured, ivory, or lamp-black, 

 ground with boiled linfeed-oil, maybe fubftituted. 



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