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Finger, and run fafter than Crab-fifhes, with their Tails always 

 ereded *. 



W E read of a certain Emperor of Ferjia^ who defigning to 

 make a Tour into Media, durfl not undertake the Journey, for 

 the vaft Quantity of Scorpions lying in the Road : So that he was 

 obliged to detach a great Number of flout Fellows to deftroy 

 thofe peftiferous Animals, promifing a fuperior Reward to them 

 that kill'd moft : Till this Execution was over, he durfl not ven- 

 ture his dignified Carcafs abroad. The Scythian Scorpions are of 

 the large Size, and terrible when they ihoot their Stings. 



I N Madagajcar, a large African Ifland, are feveral Sorts of 

 Scorpions, particularly Water-Scorpions, that lie in the Marfhes 

 and flanding Waters, which are very mifchievous, killing Dogs 

 and Beafls, and then fucking their Blood. There is another Sort 

 of Scorpions with a great round black Belly, that arc very dan- 

 gerous J for thofe whom they flrike immediately fwoon, and 

 fome for two Days are weak, and cold as Ice. The only Reme- 

 dy they have, is that ufcd againfl Serpent's Wounds, ijiz. to fet 

 the Patient by a great Fire, and giving him Antidotes to expel the 

 Poifon, which proves a Cure -f-. 



I N Italy, Land- Scorpions are call'd Scurtijicio, becaufe they 

 have their Poifon ?2cl-pizzo, in the Extremity of their Tail. 

 Among the Germans, pizzo isfiarp, z.'i [pits als een naalde^ point- 

 ed as a Needle : The Country-people bring them in Sack-fuls to 

 Florence, and take them out with naked Hands, as if they were 

 fo many Eels, which fuppofes them to be of the innocent Kind, 

 like thofe ivhite Scorpions in Pharos, a little Ifland in the Mouth 

 of Nilus, where there is plenty of thefe pacifick Animals, who of- 

 fer no Violence to their Neighbours. Mention is made of other 

 Provinces where they live and hurt no body J. 



B Y the Spaniards the Scorpion is call'd Alaicran, from an 

 Ifland in America, called the IJland of Scorpions, for the numerous 

 Multitude that ravage the Place. In Brajil is a vaft Number of 

 Scorpions, and fome four or five Foot long, in Shape like thofe of 

 Europe ; but not fo venemous : Some of them chufe to kill them- 

 felves rather than die by the Hands of an Enemy. A certain 

 Gentleman who made the Trial obierves, that a Scorpion being 



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* Duke of Ho//?f/7/s AmbatTidors Travels into Perjia:, fp,irj/m. 



f A/uis (Je-j^ruph. ^-^/v/j tc'cm L.a Croix. X Praji. Kedi opufculorum, pars prior. 



