The National Register.
London, England, 1821-03-11 00:00:00

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About the year 1812, some experiments were
made on the probability of preserving provisions
without salt, under all trials of climate and time.—
It was obvious that a discovery of this kind must be
of singular importance to the sea service, where
fresh provisions arc, on many occa.iions, a necessary
of life. The success of the. experiments resulted in
a patent taken out by Messrs Dunkin, MI, and
Gamble; and a well brodivre of authorities, dis-
plays the sanction of a crowd of imposing names—
the victualling board, officers commanding squall
dross and fin.c4,nt stations, and ship captains—in
various climates, all giving their witness to the
excellence and completeness of the invention.
he first use of the discovery is to obviate alto-
gether the necessity of having live stock on board.
The cost of this article is enormous, independently
of its inconvenience. Taking its attendant expenses,
loss by death, &e. into account, it is front t.s. 6d.
to ss. a pound on voyages of average length. But
coking, and the separation of the bone, diminish
this weight by one-half; thus the general cost is
about ss, by the pound. The average price of the
patent provisions is under 3s. the pound. These
provisions are every kind of meat fit to be eaten •
cold—a matter of great importance in bad weather,
•or to be heated in a few minutes. To those the
patentees have added concentrated soups and milk.
There arc testimonials from Culling Smith, Esq.
the Duke of Kent by his Secretary, Sir Alexander
Cochrane, Sir Harry Neale, Astley Cooper, Sir F.
Laforey, Sir Home Popham, Commodore Evans, Sir •
Joseph Banks, the Governor and Council of St. He.
lena, Rear-Admiral Burlton, Dr. !Lillie, &c. and
they establish, in the most satisfactory manner, the
great points of salubrity, of perfect preservation, and
of comparative cheapness. The letter of one of the
East India Captains mentions the travels of 60170*--
eanistcrs of those meats, which were opened in Lon-
don in good condition. They had gone from London
to Batavia, thence to Sourabava, then to Batavia -
again, to Calcutta, to Batavia, and thence toLondon
—above 33,000 mileS in the warmest climates !
But perhaps the most interesting testimony, from
all the circumstances, is the latest—that subjoined
front the Discovery Ships. Front these, therefore,
we make extracts, to-confirin the importance of this
invaluable process.

Fittlll CAPI. PAI(kY•
•' N. 411. S. Beau. 9th Dec. 18?0.'

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"Gentlemen,—ln reply to your letter of the Xtit
I beg leave to you, that 1 felt it impossible to
speak too highly of the presei veil meats and soups, ;im-
paled by Ale•sra. Dunkin, 11411, and Gamble, and sup-
plied to H. I. Ship% (/:seta on,l tit lime, employed ler
my orders, on the late espedit ion for the discovery of a
nui th-we•t passage.
.• the very large supply we obtaino.l, not a single
Insrnnce occurred M. ripening a bail canister or met; four
ur live bottles of vegetable soup, and two or three of the
concenti 11111gnavy :mop, were found unlit fur lase.* With
Huse iew exceptions they were excellent, and proved a
most invaluable aequisil t.r 113 i, in the abseuce of all
fresh supplies.
" I have the honour to enclose the opinions. a the snr-
geons of the /leek aid Griper, and atia,o,:c."
111 r. Edwards says,—;
" I beg leave to state to you, that I consider them 4o
have been acquisitions of the highest loin.- to the prowl,.
siotral stores for that service, and I cannot hesitate in
sayilig, that 1 believe the substitistiuti or those articles, for
a considerable portion of the salt meat iisnally allowed
its the service, 1511, one or the principal causes of the ge-
neral good state lit healtis which prevailed among the.
crews or both vessels during the voyage."
And Mr. Beverley also writes thus strongly :
" 1 have the lumina to state to rin, that idler the trial
afforded by the laie vovage, of the beneficial egrets at-
tending 11112 11•0 iii Dunkiit's preserved meats and sumps,
I have no hesitation in pronomicing lily opinion, that to
thu judicious employ merit of these articles is its be attri-
buted in n great ineamre the preserva alit or the getter it
health of the °dicers and crew of 11. M. brg Griper; and
to the some means it to be ascribed the reeiiv. ey or the
individual atm( Iced by the scurvy. The soups 1 consider
pvcoultarly excellent, as I have every reason to nelteve
hat the untiscortnitic quality or the vegetable is not M-
imed in the preparadloll."
We understand, that an order for about 6,0011.
worth of the preserved provisions for the next voya6e
has consequently been given.

by
• A rccnrn•nee of this is on*. sir, understAnd,wholl) p,vroAA
tha• soups Mug p, epar A :a fin ca.steis, Ihr 1114111 e al 111.: 111.11$•

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