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Engliflj ; its head is flat, and the upper jaw 

 like the bill, of an hawk. Its fhields lie above 

 one another alraoft like fcales; on the fore 

 paws are three nails, and on the hind feet are 

 two. The (hell is thicker and more variegated 

 than that of any others, for which reafon it 

 ferves' for all forts of work. Further on we 

 faw whales, and a zoophyte, which the Swedes 

 call by- de-wind- feglare {Holothuria phy falls) ; 

 the Englifh call it man of war ; the Dutch be* 

 fantyes ; and Dampler, if I am not miftaken,«tf- 

 lers f . The body is half round, (lands directly 

 upwards, has many long and many ihort ten- 

 taenia, is (limy, tranfparent ; fomewhat blue- 

 ifh ; fhines in dark' nights ; is poifonous, as I 

 myfelf have experienced; and fo light that it 

 will fcarce link in Spani/lo brandy. Beyond 

 the Cape they are fmall, in the ocean they are 

 larger, and very numerous efpecially in March, 

 The old failors who have often been to the In- 

 dies affirm that they have feen what Thevenot 

 calls Carnajfe. I cannot determine whether 

 thefe or the men of war are the true Bahar- 

 ras, which, according to your defire, Mr. La- 

 gerflrom enjoined me to look for. 



f Linnteia places this animal among the MoUufia 

 ciafs of his worms ; and therelore I cannot account for 

 the author's millake in calling it a zoophyte. F. 



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