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for they will vitiate them by their acidsapour, and putrefie grapes if they be neatthem.

apples may be also kept in the same seed,

As Pliny is of mind. But ApuUhu faith a heap of Barley is better. But you mustalways mind to repose each kind in its proper continent and place, because if di-vers kinds be occluded together, they vitiate sooner: wherefore the wine that is ex-pressed out of several kinds of grapes, is not ft) sum as the simple and sincere.

Pears will keep amongst corn ,

For as Palladm faith, The Siccity thereof is notably preservative.

Mushrooms may be kept in Millet-seed.

The Vesuvians alsokeep them in dry sand. till new ones come.

: , L Pomegranates may be kept lay in Wheat,

if they be first dipped into hot waters, then recondcd in Wheat, till thev becomerugous. Farro and Cate would have them put m a heap of sand for preservation.Dydimus faith,

That Crapes may be kept well and long,

if they be suspended in a Garner, for the dust that rises up of the corn when moved)causes long duration in grapes.

- Hew Corn may be long preserved ,

TarentiKHi faith, The ashes e£ Oaks; others dry Beasts dung, strewed on corn pre-serve it j but small sand subacted with Lees of Oy 1 is better, for this corrupts all ver-mine and keeps the corn more dense and solid, Perfrigerated Argil is best of all, forit will keep corn thirty or forty years from corruption, yon may let it through astrait stive when you use it.

‘Pulse wilt keep long,

if they be sprinkled with vinegar mixed with the juice of Laser,

Chap. XV.

How other things may be preservedfrom putresaftien.

VA7E shall here recite what other things, though vile, may be preserved, and semake way for further inquisitions.

Snick-fiver will preserve all things from pntretude.

As fruits and the like, for we have often put fruits into a fit vessel, and, cast quick-silver upon them, and so preserved them long and well.

Flesh hanged on a Brasen-nail will keep long,

For Brass is so styptical and cxiccative, that the flesh it passesnot.

How a dead Carcase may be preserved .

thorow putrefies

First let the side of the Body be opened, and the Carcase exemerated ; lec the Skullbe opened and the brains taken cat»let the papists be substrate d , as also the privi-ties with the pith of the Back-bone, then hang up the Body by the feet for three orfour hours, then wa(h it with a fputig dipped in vinegar and ttpna vita , then let itdry, which done, strew it with anquerched Lime, Alcrie and Salt; let it bangso two days in the fmoak of Myrrhe, Bay, Rosemary, and Cypress in a dry

and open place. Then make a mixture of nnqucnchcd Lime five pound, of burntT Aictne