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to the tail, which was fmall, and armed 

 with two claws, like thofe of a Dung- 

 hill Cock, and in the mouth was a dou- 

 ble row of teeth. On the middle of the 

 back was a chain tif fmall black fpots, 

 running from end to end; and on each 

 fide, near the belly, another row of 

 fpots, fimilar and parallel to thofe on 

 the back ; and below thefe feveral large 

 black fpots centred with white ; the 

 reft of the body was brown. In its 

 belly was found a fmall Wirrebocerra, 

 or Deer, fo far difTolved by the digeftive 

 liquor of the ftomach, that no part of 

 it would hang together. The vifcera 

 were covered with a great quantity of 

 fat, of which a confiderable part was 

 tried and preferved for external appli- 

 cation, for pains, bruifes, &c. part of 

 which was difpenfed almoft over the 

 whole Colony. A fmaller one was foon 

 after killed on the Plantation Dafgw, 

 lying on the oppofite fide of the river. 



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