A N 



E S S A 



O N T H E 



NATURAL HISTORY 



G U I "A N A, 



In SOUTH AMERICA. 



CONTAINING 



A Defcription of many Curious Productions 

 in the Animal and Vegetable Systems 

 of that Country. 



Together with an Account of 



The Religion, Manners, and Customs 

 of feveral Tribes of its Indian Inhabitants. 



Interfperfed with 

 A Variety of Literary and Medical Observations, 



In Several LETTER 



from U 

 A Gentleman of the Medical Facul* 

 During his Refidence in that Country. 



— Ad res pulcherrimas ex tenebris ad lucem erutas alieno 

 labore deducimur. 



Seneca, De brevitate <vitd>, cap. xiv, 



LONDON, 

 Printed for T. B e c k e t arid P. A. De Hondt 

 in the Strand. MDCCLXIX. 



