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may be fqueezed together, prefiing out the watery par- 
ticles, drying thefe fmall cakes, and then putting then) 
in the abovemen tioned cerate paper. Or fmall feeds mixed 
with dry fand, and put in cerate paper, packed in pro- 
portionate glades, and covered with a bladder or leather, 
and all fuch glades again packed in a veffel, filled with a 
mixture, confiding of half culinary fait, the other half 
of two parts of faltpetre, and one part of fal ammoniac, 
will keep the feeds cool, and preferve their vegetative 
power. 
■ Plants or fhrubs that are to be tranfported, mud 
be taken out with a lump of foil covering the roots, 
which mud be wrapped in wet mofs, furroupded with 
paper or a Rufiian bad-mat and packthread ; plants 
thus packed may be put in a cfied or box upon a 
layer of three inches deep wet mofs in clofe rows, fill- 
ing up all vacancies with mofs. Some holes or dips in 
the lid of the box, covered with bad-mats or fail-cloth, 
will give them air, and a direction mud be fixed on 
top, to keep the lid uppermod, and the box in an open 
but ihady airy place, put of the fpray of the fea : the 
fame caution, in regard to air and fea ? mud be taken 
with the boxes containing feeds. 
XII. Minerals, foffils, and petrefadions of ajl kinds, 
ought to be wrapt feparately in papers, and the whole 
colled; ion packed in hay, tow, hemp, or cotton, in a box, 
fo fhat nope of the fpecimens may touch or rub one 
another when the box is tranfported by land- carriage, 
or fhaken by tfie rolling of the fea. Clays, earths, 
fands, and falts, are bed preferred in glafies, or little 
glazed gally-pots covered with a bladder. Mineral wa- 
ters may be fafely filled ip glafs bottles, immediately af- 
ter corked up and pitched, or covered with putty round 
the cork/ J 
v XIJI. 
