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odies have been preserved for ages by burial in caverns, the earthen floors of which contained a notable quantity of saltpeter. The steepes of Tartary, some of the uplands of Montana and Colorado, and the dry uplands of the Andes, are nitrous. Many caves are so also, the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, for instance. In very recent times, with the increase of chemical knowledge, considerable attention has been devoted to the subject, and various processes and compounds have been devised. Dr. Chausier employed a solution of corrosive sublimate, with which the corpse, previously disembowelled and cleansed, is saturated; this imparts firmness to the flesh and renders it imputrescent. Gaural practiced injecting the veins with sulphate of alumina. Dr. Ure proposes chloride of mercury and wood vinegar to be used in a similar way. M. Falconi found that sulphate of zinc, injected into a body, would preserve it in a flexible condition for some six weeks, after which it began to dry up, t