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PASS THE GREEN BEANS ROSS, JOHN. Autograph Manuscript Signed, titled "Memoir on the Preservation of Fresh Provisions," an essay submitted to an unnamed Society, recounting his successful use of tinned meats in both tropical and arctic climates, and detailing how the English prepare the canned provisions. 31/4 pages, folded 4to sheet; folds. With a full transcription. Np, circa 1835
"There is no invention within these 20 years which has been crowned with such complete success as that of the preservation of fresh meat and vegitables [sic] in tin cans, and the test which these have lately been put to, have placed beyond a doubt, that every kind of food can be kept in them for any length of time. The cases in which the meats are contained being cylindrical with a flat bottom and top, are proved to be in a perfect state, when the flat ends appear concave, and, on the contrary these ends becoming convex is invariably a proof, that the contents are putrid. It was from this circumstance, that on my first voyage I chose a large quantity of the cases which had been returned from the West Indies, in a ship which had been on the station 3 years, and I have now actually in my possession several of these cases which after being exposed, both to tropical & arctic climates, are now about 20 years old, one of which lately opened was in a perfect state . . . In serving this meat to a ships crew, 1/2 a pound of meat usually served to the men, and the vegitables [sic] having lost nothing of their succulent power, are found to be an excellent preventative as well as cure for scurvy. Indeed I attribute the preservation of my officers and crew during my long protracted voyage, to the use, even of the small portions we had of this valuable nourishment."
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