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examine 



of all thefe fi£h, becaufe I do 



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the leafl doubt, but the examination of them v/ould have imme 



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diately fhewed the true caufe of thefe fymptoms 



d as nothing 



occurs, which might have caufed thefe efFeds, I fufpedl that thefe 



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fi£h live chiefly upon blubbers, (MedufceJ fome of v^^hich we know 

 to be of a very burning quality, when brought into contact with 

 our fkin, and probably would be capable of producing all the 

 abovementioned fymptoms if taken internally. It might be here 



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obje(5ted, that if the blubbers are fo noxious, how happens it that 

 the fifh eat them without being affeded in the fame manner as we 



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were : but if we confider, that fifh eat, without injury, even man- 



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chenil-apples fHippomane Mancinella) which would kill a man i 



it becomes fo much the more probabl 



fi flies may 



on a 



howeve 



food, which to men is highly noxious. The natives, 



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feem to be well acquainted with the poifonous quality of the fifh 



would be advifeable therefore to enquire of them whether it may be 



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eaten with fafety, and they are every where good-natured enough to 

 give fair warning when there is the leafl danger. This circumflance 

 leads us to make the following remarks : the 



firfl is, that mankind 



ought to be confidered as the members of one great family ; therefore 



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let us not defpife any of them, though they be our inferiors in re- 

 gard X.Q many improvements and points of civilization ; none of them 

 15 fo defpicable that he fhould not, in fome one point or other, 



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