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the sand, and so on thrice : after which the male is reduced to a kind of gelly, 

 becomes blind, and is so carried home by the female. Their fat is green, but 

 not offensive to the stomach. The urine of those that eat it is oily, and looks 

 of a yellowish green colour. 



There is no manner of earth but sand at the Point ; yet melons, musk, and 

 water melons thrive well there. A great many trees also grow there, especially 

 mangranes and prickle pears. In other parts one may ride through woods that 

 are full of very large timber, and yet have nothing of earth, only firm rock to 

 grow in. 



In some ground that is full of saltpetre, and where tobacco grows wild, it 

 flashes in smoaking. 



The fruit trees there of the same kind ripen not all at one time, some are 

 observed in flower, others with ripe, others with green fruit, and others done 

 bearing at the same time. The sower-sop, a pleasant fruit there, has a flower 

 with three leaves ; when these open they give so great a crack, that the ob- 

 server has more than once run from under the tree, thinking it was tumbling 

 down. 



There is a bird called a pelican, but is a kind of cormorant, of a fishy taste, 

 but when buried in the ground for two hours, it loses that taste. 



In analysing some bodies, by letting ants eat them, he found that they 

 would eat brown sugar till it became white, and at last reduce it to an insipid 

 powder. So they reduced a pound of sallet oil to two drams of powder. 



At first coming to Jamaica, people sweat continually in great drops for three 

 quarters of a year, and then it ceases. During that space they are not more 

 dry, more costive, or make less urine than in England. Neither does all that 

 sweat make one faintish. If one be dry, it is a thirst generally arising from 

 the heat of the lungs, and affecting the mouth, which is best cooled by a little 

 brandy. 



Most animals drink little or nothing there, as hogs, even horses in Gua- 

 naboa never drink, nor cows in some places of the island for six months ; goats 

 drink but once perhaps in a week ; parrots never drink, nor parrokets, nor 

 civet-cats, but once a month. 



The hottest time of the day is about eight in the morning, when there is no 

 breeze. On placing a weather-glass in the window, it did not rise considerably 

 at that time, but by two o'clock it rose two inches. 



Venice treacle became so dry in a gally-pot as to be friable ; and then it pro- 

 duced a fly called a weevil, and a sort of white worm. The pilulae de tribus 

 also produce a weevil. 



There is in the midst of the island a plain, called Magotti Savanna, where 



