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ferved there fo well, and they arrived In fuch 
good condition, that, for the benefit of natu- 
rallfts who ftudy this branchy and who may be 
incited to undertake a like journey, I fliall, 
with great pleafure, defcribe its form. It was 
about two feet and a half high, eighteen inches 
in depth, and as much in breadth. It was di- 
vided length wife into compartments, each con- 
taining a drawer, which rofe only three inches 
from the bottom. Thefe drawers placed thus 
vertically drew upwards, and were open belov/, 
fo that, if violent jolts (and of thefe we had a 
good many) happened to detach any of the 
infefts from their frames, they fell to the bot- 
tom of the box into the empty fpace of three 
inches, which I had referved, and could in no 
wife hurt thofe that remained firm : a coat of 
virgin wax, two or three lines in thicknefs, 
melted with linfeed oil, and applied to the 
bottom of the box, flopped its pores, and by 
its fmell kept at a diftance all deftrudive ver- 
min. 
This firft waggon, which carried almofl my 
whole arfenal, we called the majier waggon. 
The compartments of one of the five boxes 
already mxcntloned were filled with large fquarc 
Vol. I. I bottles. 
