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carried into the rocky part of the Seas, ileepetl 

 till thoroughly Ibaked with the Salt Water, and 

 then well fqueezed by our Negroes to get out 

 the Juice : This Juice immediately colours the 

 Sea, and ftains it with a reddifli hue ; and being 

 of a poiionous nature, will in an hour's time 

 (that is to fay about eleven a clock in the fore- 

 noon ^ ten being the ufual time of beginning of 

 this diveriion) make the Fiflies fuch as Groopers, 

 Rock-fiflij Old Wives, Welchmen, &c. fo drunk 

 or intoxicated, as to fwim on the Surface of 

 the Water quite heedlefs of the danger : the 

 Gentlemen then fend in their Negroes who 

 purfue (both fwimming and diving) the poor 

 Fiflies, till they catch them with their hands ; 

 they themfelves (landing by on high Rocks to 

 fee the Pafcime.^ 



4. The Poifon kills millions of the fmall Fry^ 

 and indeed I can affign no reafon why they fhould 

 not likewife deftroy the Shell-fifhes who lie at 

 the bottom, and of courfe are lefs qualified to 

 efcape its effeds by paffing into the adjacent purer 

 Water ; befides, they mufl: naturally die in con- 

 fiderable numbers every year -, fo that in fhort, 

 it is no wonder at all, if in our Hurricane Months, 

 \iz,yul)\Ai/gi(/l and »S'^/'/^;;//^t'r, their Shells are caft 

 up in confiderable quantities on the rocky Shore, 



^ Notc^ That Herman AIoll's Brittijh Empire in America^ 

 dcfciihes fcveral ftrange Fifties peculiar to thefe Seas, that I 

 never could Ice or hear of. 



c. That 



