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■The Chego's are not Feit to have got into the Body, till a Week aftcr,They will breed in great Numbers, and shut themselves up in a Bag :which when you feel, there are certain Skilful Men, who with Little Patnwill take them out; having great Care to take out the Bag Entirely, thatnone of the Brood (which are like Nits) may be Lest behind, for fear ofgiviHg rise to a New Generation.

The Shining Flyes are a kind of Cantharides , looking Green in the Day-tiroe, but Glowing and Shining in the Night, even when they are Dead.

I have apply’d them Dead to a Printedand Written Paper in the Dark, andRead it.

The Manchtnel-Apple is one of the Beautifulest Fruits to the Eye, of theAgreeablell to the Smeü, and of the Pleasantest to the Taste (being thencecall’d by many the Eve-Apple) : but ik EatenCertain Death. The Woodof it yet Green, if Rubb’d against the Hand, will fetch off the Skitt, otRaise Blisters ; and if any Drops of Rain, falling front this Tree, lightupon one’s Hand, or other Naked Part of the Body, it will also have theaforesaid Effect.

obscrwHm, XI. At the Barbadoes , our general Draught of Wirst is front the Madera,bädte- f " ßar ’ u ’h>ch, contrary to all other I know of, will not endure a Cool Cellar.Tho. towus/" Frtnch nor Rhemjh Wines neither Keep nor Agree well with our Stontachs , if“• 1 '7. p. 399. so constantly Drunk as in England. Canary-Winc few here Care for, count-ing it Fulsome.

This Island is very Temperate : and the Sun, notwithstanding his Neigh-bourhood, is vtry Gentle, being fann’d with a Constant Gale front theLast.

I observe that Pttrstane is here all the Country over, where I have been,and even troublefome to the Planter : In the Fields I have many times ga-thered a Saüat of it, andit Eats as well with Oyland Vinegar as that of ourEnghß) Garden«. Here is likewise a Sonchus , Lens Palustris : I found alsoa Melilot , or one so like it in all Circumstances (except that the Brau-ches are not so Erect) that I cannot find any difference front that of Eng-land.

The Springs here are all near the Sea: so that those who Live up in theCountry have no benefit of them. They made Ponds formerly to receiveRain ; which served well enough, being kept Cool by a broad Leaved Weeiand Ducks Adeat, which overgrew molt Ponds : But now almost every Su-gar Plantation halft a Well, that gives very good Water.

The Soil is Fertile, though not abovea Foot or two Thick upon aWhiteand Spongy Lime-Stone-Rock-, which affords good £>uarries here and there,that ferve for Building. Every Dwellmg Houfe , with the Sugar -Work andother Out-housing, looks like a Handsome Town; most being new Built withSt one, and cover’d with Pantile or Slate, brought hither in the BaUast ofShips, as are likewise Sea-Cqal for Fcrges , and so are bought Cheap enough.Iftdeed the whole Island appears in a manner like a Scattered Town, which

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