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own obfervations, as well as the infor- 

 mation which I have been able to ob- 

 tain on this fubjed;, I am difpofed to 

 embrace the latter inference. 



A very fallacious account of the medi- 

 cal effedls of this Eel was lately commu- 

 nicated by one Vander hott % a Surgeon, 

 then in EJfequebo, but now in Deme- 

 rary, and publifhed in Holland, in which 

 tljejwriter -endows it with many medical 

 properties, which no other perfoa was 

 ever able to difcover, particularly for cu- 

 ring nervous fevers, head-achs, &c. but 

 in this account the marvellous is fo ab- 

 undant, that the Writer, whom I have 

 the honour of knowing, acquired na 

 increafe of reputation therefrom in, this 

 Colony. Mr. Vander Lott calk this 

 fifh a Conger Eel, though it has lefs, 

 affinity to that than any other fpecies 

 of Eels, The particles of the Torpo- 



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