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to the warmth of an oven heated to a very mo- 

 derate degree, and it will foon acquire a fi r ni- 

 ne fs which it will afterwards retain ; and when 

 this is effected, it fhould be fixed in a box, fe- 

 cured from infects, glazed in front to exhibit 

 the preparation to view. 



When perfons are on long voyages, they have 

 feldom leifure or convenience to go through this 

 procefs ; and indeed were they to effect it, it 

 would be difficult to preferve the fubjecl from 

 infefts. 



Under any embarraffment of this kind, birds 

 and other animals, particularly fmall ones, may 

 be put into brandy, wine, arrack or firft Tun- 

 ings, without being fkinned ; and the whole pro-, 

 cefs of preparation juft defcribed, may be exe~ 

 cuted when the traveller arrives in port. 



Large Sea-fowl have thick flrong (kins, and 

 fuch may be fkinned ; the tail, claws, head, and 

 feet, are carefully to be preferved, and the plu- 

 mage flained as little as poffible with blood. 



Baking in a mild heat is not only ufeful in 

 frefh prefervations ; but, will alfo be of great 



(a J Linne defcribes another method of preferving fifh ; 

 this is to expofe them to the air, and when they acquire fuch 

 a degree of putrefaction, that the fkin lofes its cohefion to 

 the body of the fifh, it may be Aid off almoft like a glove; 

 the two fides of this fkin may then be dried upon paper 

 like a plant, or one of the fides may be filled with placer 

 of Paris, to give the fubject a due plumpnefs. Vid. Amasn. 

 Acad. Vcl. III. A fifh may be prepared, after it has ac-r 

 quired this degree of putrefaction, by making a longitudinal 



fervice 



