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This is probably of the fame fpecies 

 with the Fifh which Monf. de la Con- 

 damine curforily mentions in his Rela- 

 tion abregee dun Voyage fait dans llnte- 

 rieur de fAmerique, &c. and which he 

 calls " une efpece de Lamproie," found 

 in the environs of the city of Para, on 

 the fouthern (bore of the River of the 

 Amazons, " dont le corps comme celui 

 u de Lamproie ordinaire eft perce d'un 

 " grand nombre d'ouvertures ; mais qui 

 " a de plus la meme propriete que la 

 *' Torpille. Celui qui la touche avec la 

 <( main, ou meme avec un baton, reffent 

 " un engourdiflement douloureux dans 

 4 le bras, & quelquefois en eft, dit on, 

 " renverfe. " This is all which that 

 Gentleman fays concerning this Fifti ; 

 which pretty well agrees with feveral 

 particulars obferved in the Torporific 

 Eel, But if the fhock is conveyed by 

 a ftafF, as he mentions, it mult be of a 

 few particular kinds of wood, as I could 



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