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comparably well represented with lifelike colours, the 

 rarest trees, plants, animals, birds, fishes, snakes, frogs, 

 lizards, painted-toads, skildpaddor, and insects, which 

 are there found, so that no one can see that they are not 

 living where they stand with their natural colours on the 

 paper. Mr. Catesby seemed to be a man of nearly sixty 

 years, and was somewhat short-sighted. He now devoted 

 his time to reading, and to further elaborating the 

 Natural History. His aforesaid work, which consisted of 

 two large Volumes in Regal Folio, was very dear ; and 

 both together now cost in England twenty-two to twenty- 

 four guineas, therefore not for a poor man to buy. 



[T. I. p. 420.J The 23rd May, 1748. 

 Nytta och Skada af Punch. 



Good and harm of P. I asked Mr. Catesby and Dr. 

 Mitchel whether they thought that Punch was a useful 

 or a baneful drink ? They answered that their opinion 

 was that it is beneficial or baneful according as it is 

 prepared. Mr. Catesby [T. I. p. 421] said that his 

 experience in Virginia and Carolina had been as follows. 

 They drank at one time Punch which was made of 

 strong Brandywine or rum and water with much sugar 

 in it, but only a little lemon-juice was added. The 

 effect, which they gradually found, of this was, that after 

 some time they got a kind of Paralysis, which was such 

 that they could not hold anything with the fingers ; for 

 they had almost no strength in them, but were obliged 

 to place everything they wished to take hold of between 

 the two hands. For example, they could not hold the 

 glass which they wished to raise to the mouth with the 

 fingers, which they could not press together, but between 

 the wrists, hand-logorna. 



Afterwards they began to diminish the quantity of 

 Brandywine and sugar but to put more lemon-juice in 



