THE ART OF PRESERVING, _&c. &c. &c._ THE ART OF PRESERVING ALL KINDS OF _Animal and Vegetable Substances_ FOR SEVERAL YEARS. A WORK PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE _FRENCH MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR_, On the Report of the Board of Arts and Manufactures, BY M. APPERT. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY, BOOKSELLERS TO THE HON. EAST-INDIA COMPANY, LEADENHALL STREET. 1812. Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page Explanation of the Plate viii Advertisement ix Letter of the Minister of the Interior xxi Certificate of the Board of Arts xxiii Letter to General Caffarelli from the Council of Health xxiv § 1. _The Art of Preserving, &c._ 1 2. Description of my Rooms, &c. 11 3. Of Bottles and Vessels 18 4. Of Corks 20 5. Of Corking 22 6. The Means of distinguishing defective Bottles, &c. 37