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The Palm Tree Worm is common 

 not only in Guiana, but the Car rib bee 

 Iflands. It is bred in the heart of the 

 Cabbage - tree after it is cut down. 

 They are near as thick as a man's fin- 

 ger, and two or three inches in length. 

 The head is black, and the body ap- 

 pears like a piece of yellowifh fat, con- 

 tained in a fine tranfparent fkin. They 

 are efteemed a delicate morfel, not only 

 by the aboriginal Natives, but by many 

 of the White Inhabitants, particularly 

 the French, who roaft them before the 

 fire, and mix them with crumbs of 

 bread, fait, and pepper. 



Spiders are very numerous in 

 Guiana, and of feveral fpecies. The lar- 

 geft, and only one which I {hall defcribe, 

 is here by moft people miftaken for 

 the Tarantula, a native of that part of 

 Italy called Apuglia, and of which there 

 is a very minute defcription in the Me- 

 moirs 



