234 TIMEHRL 
The above Work, which is the result of much fatiguing 
research and travel through the impenetrable forests and 
inaccessible wilds of Guiana, will be put forth in numbers, 
in order to gratify the unusual anxiety of the public, 
The first number will contain an interesting and accu- 
rate account of the GREAT SNAKE that was seen in this. 
country in the year 1790, and whose track from N. to S. 
now forms the bed of that immense inland River which 
unites the waters of the Amazon, Essequebo and Oronoco. 
This number also treats of the Crocodiles that inhabit 
the banks of the Apuré—one of which, in the year 1803, 
swallowed a large Canoe with several Indians in it; and 
further shews, that the best way of preventing similar 
accidents to one’s self, is to stay at home and read other 
people’s accounts of them, There is also an explanation 
of the most successful method yet discovered, of catching 
that beautiful produ€iion of nature, the humming bird ; 
which it appears, may be done without any injury what- 
ever to the plumage, by simply laying a little fine salt 
upon its tail. . 
N.B.—Wanted—Two aétive, smart-fingered Lads as 
Apprentices to the F/y-catching business,” 
It does not appear that Dr. FRASER’S “ Enchiridium”’ 
was ever published; perhaps it was killed by ridicule, 
which is a pity, for it probably would have been useful to 
the Naturalist. Under the heading of “ A New Work” 
a notice in the Chronicle of June 24th 1822, runs as 
follows :— | 
“ There is now in forwardness for the Press, a new 
Periodical Work, to be entitled The Ralezghan Weekly 
Miscellany, the Editor of which has been a frequent 
correspondent in the Guiana Chronicle, 
