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ing it, fix at a time for Cattle, exc. it was in the Cliffs of Bar- 
bados. 
It is pretty ftrange that fometimes at great depths in the Bowels 
of the Earth, thefe Subftances that have belong’d to real Shell- 
Fifh fhould be found. They are common in moft Counties of 
England. Mr. Middleton brought fome of them dug up in Bar- 
bados. \have by me many Affroites, (a fore of Coral,) taken up 
in the in-land parts of England, in as great plenty near the Sur- 
face of the Earth, as I have feen them in the neighbouring Sea 
to Jamaica, their Native place. At Richmond in Surrey they find 
in digging the Clay-Pits for making Tiles, many back-Bones of 
Sharks, and Shells; and I have in my pofleffion feveral of 
the ordinary real Nautili that are now only brought to us from the 
Faft-Indies, that have been dug up there. 
At Sixteen-Mile-Walk, or St. Thomas in the Vale; the Fog, 
which is every morning, except in rainy Seafons, lafts till about eight 
or nine, and then is difpelfd by the Sun. This Fog is not 
counted unwholefome. The Road thither is by the Water-fide, 
or along the Banks of the Rio Cobre, where there is a Stone under 
which one pafles, as under an Arch. There isa Hill, or rather a 
Rock, on the left fide going up, which is at leaft two hundred 
yards perpendicular heighth having Bufhes here and there on it, 
down which a wild Boar being hunted precipitated himfelf, 
and was at the bottom reduced to Mafh. The River is fometimes 
filled with great Stones, which come rowling down from the 
neighbouring Hills, and fometimes with Timber rotten and faln 
intoit, The Wood here is Tall, and the Woodbines on them very 
long. The Rain at Sixteen-Mile-Walk 1s fo furious as fometimes to 
wath out of the ground the Roots of all the Plants fet in it. | 
I was here told by Eye-Witneffes, that one Dr. Foffer, at 
Sixteen-Mile-Walk, had tam’d a great Snake or Serpent, and kept 
it about him within his Shirt; it would wind it felf fat about 
his Arm, and drink out of his Mouth, and leap at a Call on the 
Table, to eat Crums of Caffada Bread, It was killed by one 
Coffin, after fixteen months being tame: it was about the bignefs 
of ones Wrift. 
When the Potatos here, and at other Plantations in this Ifland are 
full grown, they hough up the Roots, cleanfe them of tieir Fibres, 
keep them for ufe, and give the Stalks and Leaves to their Hogs 
for Food. 
The next Town, in bignefs to Port-Royal, on the Ifland, is 
St. fago de la Vega, ot St, James of the Plain, a Town improving 
every 
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