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Description by Temperature Collectanea from 1796 to
Wilds America Octavo
Vo.1.p.395
In order to avoid
the expence of feeding
many (cattle] thro' the
winter, as soon as
the frost sets in they
generally kill cattle
and poultry sufficient
to last them till the
return of Spring. The
carcases are burried
in the ground and
covered with a heap
of Snow, and as they
are wanted they are
dug up, Vegetables
are laid up in the
same manner and
they continue very
good throughout the
Winter.
Longs Travels in
America 1791. p.85
The weather being
more moderate I
sent my men to the
lakes to look after
the Nets which had
been under the Ice
a considerable time
the severity of the
season not having
allowed us to examine
them for near a
Month, when to our
great mortification
they were found almost
rotten and not
a single Fish.—
1
Nicholson's Dictionary
Art. Putrefaction.
Every animal
substance exposed to
the air as a temperature
above ten
degrees above ten
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degrees of Reamur (Fah 54 1/2) and moistened with its own serous humour putrefies. Word for word from Chaptal III.400. 2 Chaptal III.395. Moisture is an indispensable requisite to facilitate putrefaction and any substance may be defended from this change by compleatly drying it. This was performed by Cazalet and Villers of Bordeaux by means of Stoves the meat thus prepared was preserved several years without having contracted any bad flavour. The sands and light pereroires Earths preserve the bodies of men only by virtue of the propert of exhausting the Juices and drying the SOlids. From this cause it is intire Caravans have been discovered in Arabia cocnsisting of men and camels perfectly preserved in the Sands under which the impetuous winds have buried them. ibid. Mummies of this sort from Teneriffe are kept in Trinity College Library Cambridge, 3 Chaptal III. 274. The contact of Air is the second necessary cause in the putrefaction of Vegetables. It is reported in Ephimirides of the curious natural phnenomena
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