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than in the lower Grounds : The latter, viz, the 

 Scorpion is the exact fhape, and indeed of the 

 felf-fame colour with a Crayfifh before it is boyled j 

 it bites according to the common opinion there, 

 with its two large Claws that grow next to its 

 Head, and the bite has not a more malisnant ef- 

 fedt than that of the Centipee -, they are I believe 

 always found pretty high up in the Mountain | 

 for my own part, I never faw above one of them, 

 which was fcarce the length of my little Finger, 

 wondrous flow in motion, and its Body as well 

 as Claws very flender. ^^ere^ Whether they 

 refemble our European ones whofe Sting is much 

 worfe and lies in their Tails ? The Sting of a 

 Scorpion in Apuglia produces much the fame 

 Eifedts, as the Bite of a Tarantula^ But the Bite 

 of a Nevis Scorpion does not. 



7. As Phyfick is none of my peculiar Pro- 

 vince, 1 defign to leave this, and the following 

 paragraph to be accounted for by the Phyficians, 

 and Surgeons. My Negro-man Oxford^ had (twice 

 I think) a flender whitifli Worm that came gra^ 

 datim ( i.e, an inch or more every day) out of his 

 Leg not far from the Shin bone, about half way 

 from knee to foot. This Worm was not knotted; 

 for I take the knotted Worm to be a concatena- 

 tion of many Worms joyned together, as it were 

 in a link. As it came out he woui:id it round a 

 very fmall piece of Stick, that part of it immedi- 

 ately 



