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SHORT DIRECTIONS 
For Lovers and Promoters of 
NATURAL HISTORY,* 
In what manner Specimens of all Kinds may be 
collected, preferved, and tranfported to diftant 
Countries. 
I. \ L L Quadrupeds of a great bulk muft be fkinned 
as foon as poflible after death *, the tail, claws, 
teeth, horns, ears, briftles on the nofe and chin, 
are carefully to be preferved *, the hair of the fur as little 
flained with blood as poflible ; the opening is to be as 
fmall as it can conveniently be without hindering the ope- 
ration •, the inflde of the fkin may then be wafhed or 
brufhed over with a liquor, made of an ounce of Sal Ammo- 
niac, diflolved in a quart of water, in which afterwards two 
ounces of corrofive fublimate Mercury muft be put : or 
four ounces of Arfenic may be boiled in two qua ts, or 
two quarts and a half of water, till all or the greater part 
of it be diflolved, and the liquor may ferve for the fame 
purpofe to wafh the infide of the fkin : then the whole 
cavity muft be fluffed with oakum or tow, likewife fa- 
turated with the above liquor, afterwards dried and mixed 
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