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put it over by degrees. And it is ob- 

 ferved, that the Pike will eat vene- 

 mous things (as fome kind of Frogs 

 are) and yet live witnout being 

 harmed by them: for, as fome fay r , 

 he has in him a natural Balfome or 

 Antidote againfh all Poifon : and 

 others v that he never eats a vene- 

 mous Frog till he hath firft killed 

 her, and then (as Ducks are obfer- 

 ved to do to Frogs in Spawning time, 

 at which time fome Frogs are ob- 

 ferved to be venemous) fo through- 

 ly wafh t her,by tumbling her up and 

 down in the water, that he may de- 

 vour her without danger. And 

 Gefner affirms, that a Polonian Gen- 

 tleman did faithfully allure him, he 

 had feen two young Geefe at one 

 time in the belly of a Pike : andhee 

 obferves, that in Spain there is no 

 Pikes, and that the biggeft are in 

 the 'Lzke'Tbracimane in 7/^/)/,and the 

 next, if not equal to them, are the 

 Pikes of England. 



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