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while they stand
above the Water and
the cleansing of them
is to no purpose
for it will eat and
spread the further &
frequently eat thro'
two or three of their
Coats. In this cause
they must immediately
be covered with
Water when the snow
will be stopped and the
roots become sound &
flower as well as those
which never had any
such distemper. If
the roots are suffered
to remain in Water
all the year they will
not decay but will
flower again at their
proper Season and
that as vigorously
as those which have
been taken out and
dried.

7.

Per. S.B. Currants
are kept in Russia
in Water it the Water
serves at any
rate to exclude the
air and the temperature
it must be supposed
is low enough
to be a bar to fermentation.
The Water serves
as a bar to great
sudden changes of
temperature.

8

Nich. Dict. Putrifaction.
II. 734.

Boyle states that
he has preserved Lemons,
Oranges and
other fruit from putrifaction
and other
fermentation during

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several years by
including them
in an exhausted
receiver.

Macbride found
putrifaction accelerated
in one instance
prevented in another
by exhaustion.ibid.
he attributes the
difference to a difference
in the degree
of exhaustion.

Is it not rather
to be attributed to a
difference in the temperature
which is
not here noticed?

9

Stedman's Germania
I. 121.

A single piece of
ready roasted beef is
often sent from Europe
to Guiana as a
most valuable and
delicate present.

The manner of preserving
the meat for
this long voyage is
when roasted by putting
it in a block
tin box or Canister
then filling up the
empty space with
gravy or dripping
till it is perfectly
covered over after
which the box must
be made fast and
soldered round about
so that neither air
nor water can penetrate
by this means
I was told it may
be with safety carried
round the Globe.

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10

Brown's Travels.p.15.

There are several
kinds of preserved Meat
prepared among the
Orientals for long
journies. They obviate
the inconveniences
of salt provision
by using clarified
butter - the kind most
used is called mishli
and will keep good
for many years it
is brought from
Western Barbary
to Kalnia (Cairns).

11.

Encyclo. Brit. Art. Flower

Another method of
preserving both Flowers
and fruit sound
throughout the whole
year is also given
by the same Author
Sir Robt. Southwell.
Take Salt Petre one
pound Armenian
bole 2 pound clean
common Sand 3lb.
Mix all well together
then gather fruit of
any kind that is
not fully ripe with
a stalk to each put
these one by one
into a wide mouthed
glass laying them
in good order tie over
the top with an oil
Cloth and carry them
into a dry Cellar
and set the whole
upon a bed of the
prepared matter of
four inches thick
in a box fill up
the remainder of
the box with the
same preparation

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and let it be four
inches thick all over
the top of the Glass
and all round its
sides. Flowers are
to be preserved in
the same sort of
Glasses and in the
same manner and
they may be taken
up after a whole
year as plump and
fair as when they
were buried

12

Lady Millar's Letters
Vol.I.p.157

Their Grapes are
excellent which they
have the art of
preserving for 9
Months in such
perfection as to
appear newly gathered.
I informed
myself also in regard
to this article of
the menage.

13

Hearn's Journey
from Hudsons Bay
page 166.

In the course of
our trade with them
[the Esquimaux] we
frequently purchased
several Seal skin bags
which we supposed
were full of oil but
on opening them
have sometimes found
great quantities of
Venison Seals and
sea-horse paws as
well as Salmon and
as these were of no
use to us we always
returned them to the
Indians who eagerly

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devoured them tho'
some of the articles
had been perhaps
a whole year in
that state. This method
of preserving
their food tho' it effectually
guards it
from the external
air and from the
flies does not prevent
putrifaction
intirely tho' it renders
its progress very slow.

14

Wells Americae II.456.

The spring from
whence the Houses
are supplied with
Water stands nearly
in the center of the
Town and over it
a large stone House
with very thick Walls
is erected. Houses
like this are very
common in America
they are called Spring
Houses and are built
for the purpose of
preserving meat
milk butter & c during
the heats of the Summer.
This Spring
House in Bethlehem
is common to the
whole Town a shelf
or board in it is
allotted to each family.

15

Hearns Journey
from Hudsons Bay
p 460.

When the Ships
have remained in
the Bay so long
that the Cranberries
are ripe some of
the Captves. have
carried them home
in Water with
great success.

Identifier: | JB/106/035/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1796	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	frigidarium
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	preservation by temperature collectanea from 1796 to 1800 no 1
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