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thej will sleep a Month or two in Winter, and can hardly be 

 revived 'till just the time of their going abroad. The Body 

 being roasted with Oil and Salt, and eaten, helps wonder- 

 fully Ulcers in the Lungs ; the Fat dropt into the Ear, helps 

 Deafness. The Body burnt to Ashes, mixt with Honey, and 

 eaten every Morning, clears the Eye-sight; and with Oil, 

 helps burnings. 



The Bat, or Rear-mouse, w^hereof there are two sorts, viz. 

 one a large sort with long Ears, and particularly long strag- 

 ling Hairs. The other is of the same kind here as with us in 

 Europe, only something larger, and is plentiful all over this 

 Province, yet it never appears all the Winter. The Bat alone, 

 of all Creatures that fly, brings forth its young alive, and 

 suckleth them with Paps, and giveth Milh ; it likewise will 

 convey or carry them from one place to another as it flies. 

 I have put this Animal amongst the Beasts, tho' it partakes 

 of both ^NTatures, of the Bird and Mouse kinds. The Flesh 

 is abominable Food, yet some eat it, and it is frequently 

 Roasted, and given to Children that eat Dirt (which is very 

 common amongst the Christians and Negroes in this Prov- 

 ince) and is held as an infallible Medicine for that purpose. 

 The Blood causes the Hair to fall off, the Gall helps the biting 

 of the Slireiu-mou^e, and dimness of Sight. 



Having thus given an Account of the Terrestrial, or Land- 

 Animals, which arc to be met with in Carolina, and are 

 already kno\^Ti to us ; I shall in the next place proceed to 

 describe the Reptiles and Insects. Not that I pretend to give 

 an ample Account of all the different Species, (which would 

 require a larger Volume than is here designed) they being 

 very numerous ; my Purpose is to discribe such only as I can 

 perfectly remember, and whose Qualities are best known; 

 there being too great a diversity of various kinds, many 

 whereof arc not yet thoroughly discovered, and others have 



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