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from receiving the wound. The blood, 

 which had fuffered a fatal diffolution by 

 the poifon, exuding from the ends of the 

 capillary fanguine arteries, occasioned 

 the appearance of purple fpots on every 

 part of the external furface of the body, 

 and haemorrhages enfued from the nofe, 

 eyes> ears, lungs, &c. I was not a wit- 

 nefs to this accident, but have related, 

 it on the teflimony of feveral perfons of 

 undoubted veracity, who were prefent 

 at the time it happened. 



But a particular defcription of all the 

 Snakes in Guiana would fill a volume, 

 and perhaps convey but confufed inade- 

 quate ideas of the objeds themfelves. 

 I muft defire you, therefore, to fujpenjd 

 your curioflty, on this fubjedt, till I 

 have the pleafure of returning to Eng- 

 land, when I fhall prefent you with a 

 collection of Snakes, which I am now 

 making. The method which I ufe, in 



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