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low) fome other blackifli, and moll if not all of 

 them adorned with little round fpots of all forts 

 of a mofl lively variegated hue ; I have feen the 

 coal-black {kin all along upon the Neck and Back 

 of fome of them, rife up into a fliarp edge, and 

 to be jagged like the teeth of a Hand-faw : and 

 I have alfo with a nngular pleafure viewed others 

 of the fmall brown kind, whofe Backs feemed as 

 if they were wrought with the Needle, like an 

 embroidered Waiilcoat; their Shape refembles 

 that of a Newt, but they run very nimbly over 

 rocks o • dry ground ; their Eye is much finer 

 than the Eye of a Toad, which they caft v/iftful- 

 ly upon any Perfon who is near them ^ and in- 

 deed upon my whiftling foftly to one at any time, 

 I obferved it to ftop fhort though in the midft of 

 a run, to view me wondrous attentively, with its 

 Head held (as it were purpofely) on one lide, and 

 to dop down and raife it up again with a vaft fcem- 

 ing fatisfadtion as being naturally inclined to Mu- 

 fick, and thruiling out of its fa:iooth Throat (at the 

 fame inftant) an empty Skin refembling a tranfpa- 

 rent yellow Bag, or Purfe : They are exceeding 

 numerous, great xA^dmirers of Mankind, very in- 

 ofFenfive upon all accounts, not eatable, and of 

 courfe molefted or hurt by no body. As for 

 Guanas, I never faw above three or four during 

 my whole five years ftay at Nevis, they being 

 rarely met with j and this Rarity may in fome 



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