[ 3 X 3 ] 
terials, you may content yourfelf with a Salt which 
is cheap in moft Countries ; it is fufficient to fill the 
Cavity of the Body and of the Neck with Alum 
reduced to Powder. A Material ftill eafier to be 
had in all Places, and very cheap, and which works 
with great Effedt, is Lime. If it can be had quite 
unflack’d, you will take it preferably ; however, 
without ferupling to take fuch as is old, and which 
has been fomewhat flackened by the Humidity of 
the Air. 
After the Body and the Neck of the Bird have 
been filled up, either with pulverized Lime, Alum, 
or any other Powder, you put it into the Box or 
the Barrel, in which it is to be tranfported. You 
will take care, in placing it, to give a natural Po- 
fition to the Neck, neither to give to the Legs any 
other Inflexion than they had when the Bird flood 
upon them alive. At the Bottom of the Box or 
the Barrel there is to be a Layer of the Thicknefs of 
an Inch, or thereabouts (if there be more there will 
be no Harm) of the fame Powder with which the 
Cavity of the Body is filled, or of any of thofe 
which are proper for it. You bury the Bird in this 
Powder, and put enough of it about it and upon 
it, fo as to cover it with a Layer of the Thicknefs 
of an Inch or more. The outward Powder will 
make it dry the fooner, and keep off voracious In- 
fers, which will not care to attempt to pierce 
through it in order to come to the Flefh they are 
fond of. During the firfl Days, and even during 
the firfl Weeks, the Birds may caft a bad Smell, 
which you need not be uneafy at, for it will leflen 
in proportion to the Bird’s drying; and it will dry 
