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thouiand ways, to which are faftened by a tail many fmall glo- 
bules exactly round, as big as a Imall pea, full of a milky juice, 
and Ibme fmall white eggs, griftly, perfectly round, as big as a 
inillet leed, hard, and full of a white matter 5 in the inteftine to- 
wards the extremity, there is a large valve fafliioned like a 
heart, with two little bags, where begin a thoufand Ifnall chan- 
nels, made of fine yellow fat, which fill the cavity of the intefline 
for half an inch 3 it is probable that thefe pafTages of fat receive 
the prolific liquor in order to condu^l it into the Ovarium* 
Obfervations in the Weftern Ifks of Scotland 5 by Mr. Martin. 
Phil. Tranf. I^*' 299. p. 727. 
AL L the tribe of fowl are oblerved to have their ientinels, 
elpecially in the night ^ the watchfulnels of the Icart is true 
to a proverb : The want of rain at the ulual time of laying eggs 
hinders the lea-fowl from laying for fome time : If the April 
moon go far in ]May\ the lea-fowl lay 10 or 12 days later than or- 
dinary : A poor man of Roivdil in the iile of Harries^ known 
by the name of St. Clement's ^Und^ tho' his fight lerved him to 
travel alone, yet he was always ftruck blind two days before the 
new moon, which confined him to his bed, but at that inilant he 
recovered his fight 5 in this he never failed once in his lifetime, for 
which reafon he was called the infallible almanac: The children 
in FcrrintoJJj in Rofs are taught from their infancy to drink 
j4qim VitdB^ and are never oblerved to be troubled with the 
worms: There are many in the Higb-hr.dSy who pretend not to 
any ildll in lur^ery, and yet venture to cut off the Uvula, when 
they are troubled therewith, and prelcribe with fuccefs for a re- 
medy after it a piece of bread and cheefe : In many of the illes, 
for head-aches the common people apply fpear-wort^ for being 
bruifed ajid applied, it raifes a bliiler, from which a great deal 
of matter runs 5 and this they find very effectual in pains in the 
eyes, head, arms or legs : They alio drink with good fuccels its 
expreffed juice for a purge j and to prevent the excoriation of the 
throat, they drink a little melted frefli butter: jlnn George 
was married in the 51ft year of her age, and was afterwards de- 
livered of a child with two teeth : Another woman in Lewis 
was feven years bringing forth a child by piece-meal, and all by 
the fundament : A boy m the Jjk of Skye h?.d a faculty of ereft- 
ing his ears at pleafurc : There are feveral towns in Skye, where 
the fheep have no marrow, and thefe are rocky, high, and much 
expoled to the wind: The inhabitants of St. Kikla are every 
fummer inferted with a cough upon the chamberlain's landing. 
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