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culiar Sorts of Fruit -, however, I do not remem- 

 ber one fingle inftance to the contrary, either 

 here at home in England^ or in the Leeward Cha- 

 ribee Iflands : Or fuppofe there to be a few in- 

 ftances to the contrary, Pray what Conclufions 

 can we draw therefrom, to fupport fo grofs an 

 Error ? Surely none at all. 



3. Dr. Pate?2, of Nevis ^ a Perfoii of good 

 Learning, ftrong natural Parts, and untainted 

 Veracity, was brought up at the Univerfity of 

 Aberdeen^ and had (as a Ship Surgeon) made three 

 Voyages to Lidia 3 In one of which they touch-- 

 ed (to the beft of my remembrance) upon the 

 Coajft of Bengal^ where he faw a very extraordi- 

 nary kind of Rarity ; viz, an hidiait Brachman, 

 who by Charm or Enchantment undertook to 

 quell the fierce and favage temper even of Cro- 

 codiles, fo far as to oblige them to come out of 

 the Water quite tame and inoffenfive. He went, 

 in company of fome Sailors, who had been there 

 about two years before, to vifit the old Brach- 

 man at his Hut, which was fituate in a retired 

 lonefome place in the Wild Country, and not far 

 from a Pond, clofe to which he had contrived a 

 Room of Entertainment (of about thirty foot 

 fquare, with Benches in it) by hanging Matting 

 to fome. fpreading Ever-green Trees, that (by a 

 little help from the Sea Breezes) rendered it won- 

 drous cool and refrelliing in fo fultry a Climate. 



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