The Natural Fiftory of JAMAICA. 
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Tc is to be found in all frefh Water Rivers and Ponds efpecial i 
the Country, whence they and Mullets come down in axe ae ee 
in great Rains with the Violence of the Stream, and when it runs 
no more, they are lefe in Holes of ftanding Water and taken with 
Dogwood Bark. 
There being great Varieties in Eels in Ezrope, according to the feve- 
ral Waters they live in, it ought to be no Wonder if the Eels in Ja- 
maica differ in fome {mall Matters from thofe of Exrope, the Rivers be- 
ing there much more rapid and violeat than in other Places where 
Rain is not fo great or lafting. 
I am very inclinable to believe Marcgrave’s Mucu to bethe fame with 
this Fifh. 
Eel is of a very good Nourifhment, but being fat is hard of Digeftion. 
The Fat, dropping from them while roafting, dropt into the Ears, helps 
their old Aches. The fame taken off the Top of the Water wherein 
they boil, is good for Wounds, The Fume of the Skins of thofe falted 
put on Coals and receiv’d by the Fundament is good for Dyfenterical 
Gripes. Sa/vian. 
’ “apt y tryed ee - 4 
Cau a.p oA... ; 
Of Fifbes with rounder or contracted Bodies. 
longiffimis [pints donatus, Lifter. ib. p. 155. Tab.1. 6. Raty. Syn. p. 42. 
An orbis muricatus alter. Cluf. exotic. An orbis Bartrachoides. Muf. Sac. Reg. 
Guamaiacuguara Brafilienfibus Marcgr. p. 158. ed. 1648. Raw, 147. Guamata- 
cuguara. Pifv ed. 1658. p. 300. An orbis muricatus, Gefn? Heriffon de Mer. de 
Rochef. p. 198. Poiffon armejde Dutertre. p. 209. Toad-Fifh wich many cruel 
Prickles, which flead, is: eat, buc the Skin is poyfonous. It is Good for 
the Bloody-Flux. Asonymus Portugal of Brafile, Lib. 7- cap. 1. po 1314. ap. 
Purchas. 
A re Pifcis Clufij exotic. Willughby, p. 146. Tab.X. §. Hiftrix, Pifcis 
Ihave nothing to add to the Defcriptions of the above recited Au- 
thors. a 
The Gall of it is Poyfon, Pifo. The Antidote is the Crab Arata. 
The Contrivance of the Mouth is admirable, having no Teeth but 
being made up of two large Bones broad and hollow’d, as Mill-ftones, 
with which the Meat which are Sea-Snails, Crabs and other Shell-fith are 
crack’d, ground, and made fit for the Digeftion inthe Stomach, wherein I 
found many of them, in one I diffeted taken in Port-Royal Harbour. 
‘Thefe Mandibles are found deep under Ground in feveral Places in England. 
Il. Orbis Levis oblongus, cinereis Cr fufcis maculis notatus. Tab. 247, Fig.t. 
Raij. Sys. p. 43. Az orbis oblongus tefiudinis captte Clufij exot. lib, 6, cap. 262 
Willughby, p. 147°? Tab. I. ge Fig. 3° An Toad-fifh Amayacu of an Anonymus 
Portugal, ap.Purchas. lib.7. cap. X- p.13%4. It ts poyfonous if eaten with the 
Skin, but not without it. It kills Rats — 
The Toad-Fifh. ; 
This was 5 Inches from Head to Tail; it was roundifh and about an 
Inch broad near the Head, where broadelt, the Mandibles were ae 
white 
