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LETTER IV, 



SIR, 



T Hough I am confcioiis to myfelf, that my 

 former Letters have fufiiciently trefpaffed 

 upon your patience, and good nature ; yet as a 

 few frefli thoughts are come into my head, I 

 cannot help acquainting you with them, becaufe 

 they tend to promote in fome me^fure the fame 

 honeft defign. 



I . Know then, That as foon as the Evening 

 has ihut out Day-light in that part of our Nor- 

 thern Hemifphere, there immediately begins a 

 very foft and agreeable noife all over the Iflands 

 of NeviSy St. Chriftopher's^ &c. which we fup- 

 pofe to be the united Voices of Snakes, Lizards, 

 Grafhoppers, Guanas, &c. Snakes and Grafliop- 

 pers there, are much the fame with our Englifli 

 ones in all refpcdts. Lizards are from fo fmall a 

 fize as three inches, to upwards of a foot long : 

 Moft of them in the lower-ground Plantations 

 near the Sea-fide, are large and of a browniih co- 

 lour, like thofe which I have feen brought from 

 Gner7ifey and Jerfey: But higher up in the great 

 Mountain, they dwindle in bulk, though they 

 advance furprizingly in Beauty ; fome there, are 

 green, others yellow (I mean of a greenifh yel-t 



f 3 low) 



