I02 LETTER IV. 



white Water of a raw unfavory fmell, and which 

 is rank Poifon ; for if a Turky, Hen, or Duck, 

 gets to the Prefs and tafles the Water, it inftant- 

 ly dies. We afterwards lay the CafTada out a- 

 broad in the open air, on purpofe that the hot 

 Sun-beams may exhale what poifonous particles 

 the Prefs could not fqueeze out : We then fift it 

 thorough a Seive, and make it into thin Cakes, 

 baking it upon a broad Iron kept purely for that 

 ufe. I was an admirer of this Bread, and do far- 

 ther allure you, that it made excellent Puddings. 

 V/oGiis Rogers in his Voyage round the World, 

 page 52. f\ys, That at Grande^ an Ifland upon the 

 Coaft of Brazi/e, in South Latitude 20 or 21, 

 the Poriugueze who inhabit it, have no Bread 

 except Caffada, which they call Farana depau^ 

 that is to fay, Bread of Wood. 



10. Though this account of the Cold Eel at 

 Surinam is fo fingular, as to make fome People 

 w^iolly to difbelieve it ; yet it is not (as you well 

 know) by far fo wonderful as the bite of a Ta- 

 rantula or Spider at Otranto in Ital)\ which has 

 been fo accurately treated of by Baglivi^ and other 

 learned Phyficians. Maximiliaii Mtffon^ (vol. 4. 

 page 59^0 gives a fine Italian Letter about it from 

 Di:.Dojninico Sangenito to Mr. Bulifon at Naples ; 

 which Letter I have prevailed upon a Friend to 

 tranflate into Englifh ; and as it contains a com- 

 pendious Relation of the Affair ; and was never 



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