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ings, and may be done with very little trouble. 

 For this purpofe, fome printer's ink (q) 9 and a 

 pair of printer's boJflfes, fuch as are ufed for 

 laying the ink on types, are necefiary. After 

 rubbing thefe boffes with a little of the ink, lay 

 the plant betwixt them, and prefs it fo as to 

 give it fufficient color ; then take the plant and 

 lay it carefully 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 

 colored according 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. 



But the moft effectual method of fending a 

 branch of any plant with the flowers and 

 parts of fructification entire and perfect, is to 

 put them in bottles of brandy, rum, or arrack. 



Corals, corallines, fponges, &c. inhabitants 

 of the fea, are found in confiderable variety 

 near the coafts of iflands and continents, par- 

 ticularly 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 fceady, or placed betwixt 

 papers in the manner of an hortus-ficcus. 



In hot climates, the infects are very rapaci- 

 ous (r) and I have feen the fineft fan-corals, 

 and others of a loft texture when firft taken out 



{q) Where this cannot be procured, ivory, or lamp black, 

 ground with boiled linfeed oil, may be fubftituted. 



(r) It has been related, that the Spaniards after having 

 fettled on the north fide of Jamaica, were obliged to quit 

 it, on account of the rapacioufnefs cf the ants, which are 

 faid to have killed their children by eating their eyes, when 

 they were left in their cradles. — Sloane's nat. hill, ofjamaica, 

 vol. I. introd. p. 48. et paffim. 



