This appears an astonishing instance of the permanence of some matter, which nevertheless in its nature must be most subtile and volatile.

Frequently, when passing at the distance of half a mile to leeward of a herd, I have perceived the whole air tainted with the effluvium.

I believe the smell from the buck is most powerful at the period when its horns are perfect, or free from the hairy skin.

When in this state the meat is, of course, quite uneatable; but the Gauchos assert, that if buried for some time in fresh earth, the taint is removed.

I have somewhere read that the islanders in the north of Scotland treat the rank carcasses of the fish-eating birds in the same manner.
The order Rodentia is here very numerous in species: of mice alone I obtained no less than eight kinds.