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The furgeon prefcribed the fame remedies, which we had preser 

 taken by his drred:ions. A tame Taheitean parroquet, which had 

 eaten a very fmall morfel of the fifh died in great agonies. 

 All the dogs, which had been fed with the bones, fins and entrails 



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of the fifh, fell violently fick and continued fo for a long while r 



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one that had retired into a boat and was lying in ibme water be- 



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came quite paralytic, ar 



fhorten his agonies : another dog equally fick, received from his 



mafler an infufion of tobacco by way of emetic, but he fell a fa- 



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orifice to the remedy. A hog which had eaten of the entrails 



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likewife died within 24 hours. 



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The circumfiances here related feem to intimate, that the Spa?'Uf 

 Pagrus or Pargos is not a poifonous fifh, but only becomes nox- 

 ious, when it has taken fome dangerous food. The fifh which 

 were caught at Port Sandwich, together with the Pagrus^ proved 



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wholefome, which proves that their food differs from that of the 

 Pargos, The Tetrodon Scekratus alone feems to be poifonou^ of it- 

 felf, fince the natives of New Caledonia were acquainted with its 

 iK>xious and deletorious quality 5 but if we again confider, that 



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the Tetrodon caufed the fame fymptoms as the Pargos, (only in an? 



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inferior degree, becaufe we ate fo very little of it) it is obvious,, 

 that the Tetrodon likewife mufl have received this deletorious- 

 Quality from the nature of its food. I wifli to have had it in my^ 



