Ohfervations &c. Q.i^ 



Monnt Atlas are not very hurtful; for theSting being only attend- 

 ed with a flight Fever, the Application of a little Venice 

 Treacle quickly alTwageth the Pain. But the Scorpions of Zaab 

 and moil other Parts of the Sahara , as they are generally 

 larger in Body and of a much darker Complexion, fo their 

 Venom is proportionably malignant, and frequently attended 

 with Death. 



Of the fame virulent Nature is the Bite of the '^οοΙα-Ιαζ,'ξ^^^^^:^ς^^^ 

 a Thalangmm of the Sahara^ the Rhax probably wliich Ml'tan ' 

 obferveth to be an Animal of thefe Parts. It is computed, 

 that twenty or thirty Perfons dye every Year, by the Hurt re- 

 ceived from this Animal and the Leffah. 



The Method of curingthe Bitoor Stins; of thefe Creatures, \%τ^^β Remedy 



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either immediately to burn or make a deep Inciiion upon thePart, ^'"'& < '^^/^ 



. r• • in • Animals. 



or elfe to cut out a Piece of the contiguous Fleih. Sometimes 

 alfo the Patient lyeth buried quite up to his Head, in the hot 

 Sands, or in Pits heated for thatPurpofe. When no great Dan- 

 ger is apprehended, then they only apply hot Aflies,or the Powder 

 oi^lbenna, with two or three thin Slices of an Onion, tying 

 them upon the Part aifeded, in the Nature of a Cataplafm. 

 I never heard that Oyl Olive was ever made ufe of, which 

 being rubbed warm upon the Wound, has been lately found to be 

 a Specific Remedy againft the Bite (particularly) of the Viper. 



I F we except a firm and well tailed frefli water Barbel , The Barbei. 

 with only two Appendages on the lower Jaw; the fmall 'Perch'^^'^^'^'^'- 

 oiCapfa, with a turned-upNofe and chequered Fins; abroadr-^, sea- 

 Sea Feather, and a fmall Tolypus of a circular Figure; there rrpoiypus. 

 are few Species of Fifli in thefe Seas but what have been long 

 ago defcribed by Rondeletius , and ftill continue to be taken 

 on the other Side of the Mediterranean Sea. A few Years 

 ago an Ore a or ToothedWh-nQ of fixty Foot long, was ftranded ^"ooihed 

 under the Walls of Algiers ; but this was looked upon as 

 fo great a Prodigy, that the Algerines were apprehenfive It 

 might portend fome direful Event to their Polity and Go- 

 vernment. 



Among the Cruflateoiis Fiihes , the firil Place is to be Cruftaceous 

 given to the Lobfter, though It is in no great Plenty uponLobfters. 

 thisCoaft. But Shrimps and Prawns, a fmall thin-ihelled Crab,PrS!' 



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