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The Dtnvn also of the Cotton-Tree is not fitto Spin. These Trees 'growHigh and Big. At the bottom of ferne of the Leaves , next to the Stalle-of themj is a knob which is Hollow, and a certain Fly > somewhat like aVismire-Fly, is bred therein.

Those Shells , of which the Indiansmake the White Wampan-peage , on*fert of their Money, are bred in Matrices growing on the botEom of Sea-bays,

They are like Feriv/inkles , but Greater. Whilst they are very Small, andfirst Growing^ Many of them are within One of the Concave Receptaclesof these Matrices, which are very Tough and Strong, so Contrived, thatthey are separate from one anothec, yet so , that each of 'them is fa-stened to a kind of Ski», Subtended all along to all these Cases Or Baggs.

%. The Plague as the Back is greatly distant from aa Empyema. It feetns' B y m*. Benjam.more of a Couitk, yet is undoubtedly a Nervous Dolour. The Country EulIlv * nC ' n »+°*People have learned of the Indians to steep Castoreum in Rnm, and so Cure p * 161 'it..

As to the Fire-flies , I took several of rhem in JaJy 1697. I take them to -be a Glow-Worm Volant ; the Luster is Placed as in a Glow-Warm. Kill theFljf (asl havedone) and you ’11 find the Scintilla a small Jelly-like Substance,the which separated into Atoms, gives still» in the Dark, a Luster proporti-onalste to the Magnitude of each Atom.

I Lw Butter-fiies-Eggs that were Teßaceous , and near as big as a Wrens,most glorioufly Bestuaded withGold and Silver; at Read-Isttnd tfje Mowerssind them in the Grafs , and they Hatch in the Windows and are a Sport forChildren.

Tortoifes are Anffbibious, I have found their Eggs by Ponds sides, in great >

Qitantities» they are without Shells, like those ia a Hent SeByi our DamesScruple not to use them,as Hen't Eggt in Puddings. •

Graßsoppers in Dry.YearSj are a Plague to the Husband*tnen: That onforne lilands they have put multitudes of Tttrkeys to Destroy them ; they are .

Prodigious in Quantity, of a Grey Colour, and about z bebes long; in -j fuly become Volant, and have a kind of Regvnental Diseipline, and as itwere, some Commandar s which (hew Greater and more Splendid Wingt thanthe Commoners, and Rise first when they are.pursoed by the Fowls, orbythe Foot of the Travailer.

The Hum-bird I have shot with Sand, and had one some Weeks in mykeeping. 1 put a Strawfor a Perch into a Venice Glaß Tumbler, tyed' over the Mouth with a Paper, in which I cut Holes for the Bird’s Bill(about as long and as finali as a Taylor’s Needle) and laying the Glaßonone side, sec a Dracbm of Honey by it, which itsoon Scented, and wiihits LongTongue put forth beyond its Bili sed daily; it muted the HoneyPure.

We have a Frog as big as a Pcnny Loaf, its Cry's exactly lice a Bull.

I have examined the Clam ; he hath a Flain Tipe or Proboscis, fromwhencehc Ejects Water, if Gomprefled.

XVII, Virginia