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fame Difeafe with it: This Opinion which hath been very 
often taken up in all Times, fince the Knowledge ofthat 
Diftemper, feems to be entirely confuted by many Argu- 
ments, and ‘particularly “by onecommon. and notorious 
Truth, ‘namely, that almoft all Degrees of \ the Pox: and 
all ‘its Symptoms, and no degree jof the true Leprofy. 
will be’ cured to Ahold well) \ bys a: Salivation, © tho’: 2t «be 
gone thro’ three or four limes with all the force imagine 
able. | 
Te hath been faid, that‘Lizards were not Eaten an ffamaica 
or the Weft-Indies, that is fo-notorioufly falfe,as that even. 
the 'fmallet forts was ‘the ‘ordinary Food of Monfieur Sua 
rian, ‘and T’ think “Father 'Phumier of late® Years, as Fa- 
ther Zadar tells us. ‘All ‘Nations ‘thhabititig thefe ‘Parts 
of ‘the World? éftéem them, and T'was’ affur'd: by: the 
firft’ Planters ‘of *famazca, that‘‘they°came inte’othis’ Cu- 
ftom, ‘under Colonel Doyly, who was, Governor there at 
the firft Settlement of the’ Englifb, when Provifions were 
fearce, and that they were then fold at a very dear Rate in 
the common Markets. ~~ ay in 9° bstog 
‘It hath been fuggefted, that 1 fpoke in fome Places. dif- 
refpettfully of the Inhabitants, “as finft, “by naming them in 
my Obférvations of their Diftempers, which: never did 
but in ordinary Cafes, and to prove’that the Difeafes ‘there 
were the fame as in Eweland, If 1 had’ not! done’ this, 
it. would ‘have been faid by the fame People, to. ‘bevan 
Hypothefis without Foundation, and this is the practice of 
all Phyfitians who write Obfervations: ‘Secondly, .by faying 
their Cloathing was very often Canvas, which 1s very true, 
and no Reflection. I myfelf made ufe of it as being lighter 
and more cool then moft forts of other Apparel. Third- 
ly, That 1 {poke more honourably of the Inhabitants of 
Barbados in refpe& of their Civility. I amy ture I never 
meant to detract any Thing from’ the Inhabitants of Sfa- 
maica, for there, as in all thefe Parts of the World, when 
their 
