A dictionary of sports; or, companion to the field, the forest, and the river side. Containing explanations of every term applicable to racing, shooting, hunting, fishing, hawking, archery, etc. ... With essays upon all national amusements / By Harry Harewood.

  • Harewood, Harry, pseud.?
Date:
1835
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Credit: A dictionary of sports; or, companion to the field, the forest, and the river side. Containing explanations of every term applicable to racing, shooting, hunting, fishing, hawking, archery, etc. ... With essays upon all national amusements / By Harry Harewood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sprinkled with the powders men- tioned below. Glass eyes, which are preferable to wax, are then to be inserted, and the head stuffed with cotton or tow; and a wire is to be passed down the throat through one of the nostrils, and fixed on the breast bone: wires are also to be introduced through the feet, up the legs and thighs, and inserted into the same bone; next fill the body with cotton to its natural size, and sew the skin over it; the attitude is lastly tobe attended to, and whatever position the subject is placed in to dry it will be retained afterwards. The drying compound is as fol- lows: Corrosive sublimate, a quarter of a pound; saltpetre, prepared or quarter of a pound; flowers of sul- phur, half a pound; camphor, a quarter of a pound; black pepper, one pound ; tobacco, ground coarse, one pound; mix the whole, and keep it in a glass vessel, stopped close. Small birds may be pre- served in brandy, rum, arack, or first runnings; though the colour of the plumage is liable to be extracted by the spirit. Large sea-fowl have thick strong skins, and such may be skinned; the tail, claws, head, and feet are carefully to be preserved, and the plumage stained as little as possible with blood. The inside of the skin may be stuffed as above. Kuckahn observes (in the Phil. Trans. vo]. lx. p.319,) that “ baking is not only useful in fresh preserva- tions, but will also he of very great service to old ones, destroying the eggs of insects: and it should bea constant practice once in two or three years to bake them over again, and to have the cases fresh washed with camphorated spirit, or the subli- mate solution, which would not only preserve collections from decay much longer but also keep them sweet.” But Dr. Lettsom remarks,» that “‘ baking is apt to crimp and injure the plumage, unless great care be used ; and therefore the proper de- gree of heat should be ascertained by means of a feather, before such subjects are baked.” And he pre- scribes as the best preservative, boxes well glazed; and he adds, ‘“‘ When the subject is to be kept for some time in a hot climate, it should be secured in a box filled with tow, oakum, or tobacco, well sprinkled with the sublimate solu- tion.” In Guiana, the number and variety of beautiful birds is so great, that several persons in the colony advantageously employ themselves, with their slaves and dependants, in killing and preserving these animals for the cabinets of naturalists in dif- ferent parts of Europe. he method of doing this, as related by Mr. Ban- croft (in his Nat. Hist. of Guiana), is, “‘ to put the bird which is to be preserved in a proper vessel, and cover him with high wines, or the first running of the distillation of rum. In this-spirit he is suffered to remain for twenty-four or forty-eight hours, or longer, till it has pene- trated through every part of his body. When this is done, he is taken out, and his feathers, which are no ways changed by this immer- sion, are placed smooth and regu- lar. It is then put into a machine, made for the purpose, among a num- ber of others, and its head, feet, wings, tail, &c. are placed exactly agreeable to life. In this position they are all placed in an oven very moderately heated, where they are slowly dried; and will ever after retain their natural position, with- out danger of putrefaction.” See Fisues. BISHOPPING. An _ operation performed on the mouths of horses, &c, by unprincipled dealers with a view of passing them off as young animals when the natural marks are obliterated. BIT. The iron attached to the bridle, and put into the horse’s mouth, is called a bit, or bit-mouth. In the middle there is always an