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with a powder of four parts of Tobacco- fand, four parts 
of pounded black Pepper, one part of burnt. Alum, and 
one part of corrofive Sublimate or Arfenic : laftly, the 
whole is to be fewed with a thread dipt in the above liquor, 
and the fkin thus fluffed muff be gently dried, and a day 
after put into an oven, whofe heat hiuft be fo gentle, that 
a hair, or a feather put for trial’s fake into it, will not 
crifp, or curl, or bend •, and thus it will be perfedlly 
dried ; the eyes may be filled up with putty, which, when 
dry, will look like the white part of an eye, and will bear 
painting, to exprefs with oil-colours the iris and pupil of 
the natural eye of the animal in queftion. The whole, 
animal mu ft be put into a box, filled with tow or mofs, or 
oakum fteeped in the above liquor, and perfectly dried. 
The box mu ft be brufhed over on both fides with the above 
liquor, and dried ; and the crevices fliut up with pieces of 
paper pafted. over •, the pafle muft be made either with the 
arfenical liquor, or that made with corrofive fublimate 
inftead of common water •, and I can a (fare thefe precau* 
tions, though cheap and fimple, will keep the animal in 
the beft preiervation on the longeft voyages, and for many 
years in a colleblion. This way of preparing and fecuring. 
the boxes, for fending fpecimens abroad, the prepared 
oakum or tow, the powder and liquor mentioned above, 
are always to be unckrilood when I afterwards fpeak of 
prepared boxes, prepared tow, mofs, or oakum, and pre- 
paring powder or liquor, 
II. Small Quadrupeds may be plunged into a keg cf 
brandy, rack or rum, and thus fent ever : obferve how- 
ever to put them fir ft into the coarfer kind of fpirjts ; 
and af.qr they have been therein fi r a while, and parted 
with home impurities, you mil ft pat them into another 
vefiel with new clean rum or brandy, into which fome 
alum may be put ; and they will keep thus ' better, and 
be Ids fubj,e£fc to change or decay. 
III. Birds mu.fi be opened at the vent, their entrails, 
lungs, 
