A number of recipes have been given, as one preparation may 
sometimes be more easily obtained than the others.* 
No. 8. Cement. 
It will be advisable to secure all bottles with corks, in preference 
to glass stoppers, and seal them with a compound made of the fol- 
lowing materials, viz : 
Rosin, 2 parts ; yellow wax, 1 part ; fed ochre or pounded brick 
sufficient quantity to colour. 
It is useful again to cover the bottles thus closed, with a piece of 
cloth, firmly tied, and covered with liquid pitch ; and for large bot- 
tles, to support the corks with a string, which, by being fastened to 
the circumference of the bottle, forms a cross above the corks. 
■ ANIMAL KINGDOM. 
' FISHES, SERPENTS, REPTILES, &c. 
There is no species that can be met with, but what it is desirable 
to procure ; they varying much with the climate, and the country, 
and even the sea, river, and lake, in which they may be found. 
The smaller kind may be preserved inspirits, contained in wooden 
or glass vessels; the latter being preferable. Any kind of spirit 
will answer, though the most colourless, will, on some accounts, 
be best. Either No. 4, 5, 6, or 7, may be substituted if more 
convenient. When too large to be thus preserved, the dried skin 
may be sent, care being taken to preserve the fins and head, Fish 
without scales, may have their skins separated, by dividing them 
at the point where the body and chin joins ; bending back the head 
and cautiously detaching the skin from the body, and. drawing it 
off, as in skinning eels. Then dust it well with pepper, or wash it 
with No. 1, or soak it for a few hours in No. 3, having previously 
washed it thoroughly with soap-suds, in order to remove the mu- 
cus, or slime, that may cover it. Then turn it right side out, and 
stuff with tow, cotton, saw-dust, or dry sand, and sew up the open- 
ing. The tongue, gills, and eyes, should be removed, unless quite 
small. To prevent the sand or other article from escaping by the 
mouth, fill it with oakum or tow. Afterwards, wash the outside 
with No. 1, 2, or 3, cover with tow, and pack in boxes. If the 
fish have scales, caution is required not to rub them off. We must 
here cut the fish as before, but instead of drawing the skin off in a 
similar manner, we must separate it, by a piece of thin flat wood, or 
iron, like the following, of such length as to reach from one end of 
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the fish to the other. The fins may be also thus separated, should 
there be no more convenient instrument at hand, for the purpose. 
* Nos. 3, 4 and 5, should be preferred to Nos. 6 and 7, when they can be easily 
procured, as from longer use, their preservative qualities have been more satis- 
factorily tested. 
