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| their colour, from green to rufict or hair-colour , which abate 
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‘fet him off the better, if he had not an ugly wabling gate, but that 
{if you take a Candle to fearch for him, he fhiftsaway.and hides him- | 
felf, asthe Purnefes do in Ttaly.. ~The Negroes; who have thick skins, | 
| pice. asifit were done with a; curry-comb. Next to thefe tormen- 
-; Stouts, that {ting Cattle in Ezgland, (and arecommonly felt in marifli } 
AT rue and Exatt Hiffory 
skitn’d. - They neverfting any body, noris there any venomous beaft | 
inthe [land. Thenext tothefeare Scorpions, of which, fome of: them | - 
blewer,their bellies inclining to yellow,very nimble and quick to avoid 
their purftiers - yet, the Snakes will now and then take them,between 
whom there is'a great confli&t, before the quarrel be decided 5) for | 
| the Scorpions that are’ large, are very ftrong, and will maintain the 
| fight fometimes halfan hours have feen themwreftle together a good | - 
part ofthat time : But in conclufion, the Snakes get the better, and 
|-devour the other. Thefe Scorpions were never known to hurt man 
‘or beat.’ . Toads or Frogs wehave none. dere ceca 
| “Lizards we hadin great plenty, but the Cats kill them fo faft. in the 
honfes, as they are much leflened in theirnumber. _ This little Animal 
}lovesmuchto be where men are, and are delighted toftand and gaze 
in their faces, and hearken to their difCourfe. . Thefe with us,I'think, 
{are different from thofe of Ezrope 5 the bodies of ours are about four | 
‘fitiches long, the tail ncaras much, headed not much unlike a Snake's | 
their colour, when they are pleafed, a pure grafs-sreen on the back, 
‘| blewifh toward the fide, and yellowith on thebelly 5 four, legs, and 
thofe very nimble : When they fee at diftance fome of their. own 
‘kind, ‘thatthey are angry with, mney fwella little bigger, and change |. 
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of their beauty , for their green is very pleafant and beautiful + Cala 
chap ate. 45 Biojees Nekddes eieluate CocmOene tenn e of the bie 
i and {hape ofaBeetle; but of a pure- hair-colour, which would} 
makes himunhandfome. He appears in theevening when ‘tis dark, } 
ard will, whenhe pleafes, fly to your bed, when he finds you fleep- 
ing, and bite your skin, till he fetch blood, if you donot wake 5 and } 
rand by reafon of their hard labour, fleep foundly at night, are bitten 
fo, as far as the breadth ofboth your hands together,” their skins are 
tors, are Musketos , who bite and-fting worfe than the Gnats and | 
ground). And next to them Meriwings,and they are of to {malla fize, 
_| and fothin and aercall, as you can hardly difcern them , but by the 
| noileof their wings, whichis like afmall buglehorn , at a great di- 
'| ftance: Where they iting,there will rifea little knob, as big as a.peafe, 
and laft{o.a whole day; the mark; will not be gone in twenty four | — 
hours.. Caterpillars we have fometimes in abundance, and they do 
which we call Slips, and eat them all away, and come fo low, asto 
_jeat of the Root too: And-theonely remedy we have, is,to drivea 
-\flockof Turkies into the place wherethey are, andthey will devour| — 
‘}them.= Fhe harmsthefe vermine do us, is doubles firft, inthe flips,} 
which 1s the fo8d we give our Horfes, and iscaftinto the rack; and} 
inourPotatoes, being the root of thele flips, which we our felves 
fced upon. S iit see 
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very great harms for, they light upon the leaves of. our Potatoes,{ 
