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The Surinam Scorpion is of a 

 ruiTet colour, interfperfed with a variety 

 of black fpots, and is near fix inches in 

 length. From the neck proceed two 

 claws, about an inch in length, each 

 having three articulations, and being 

 armed at the extremity with a pair of 

 flender forceps. Befides the claws, it 

 has four pair of legs, the longeft of 

 which are near the tail. The tail has 

 fix joints, and is forked at the extre- 

 mity, and armed with two fmall, crook- 

 ed, horny, and pointed ftings, the up- 

 permed of which is double the length 

 of the other. When the Scorpion runs, 

 its tail is ufually coiled up. He ufually 

 holds by his claws while he ftings with 

 the tail. The wound is venomous, and 

 extremly painful, tho' not fatal, as I 

 once obferved in a Negro wench, who 

 was ftung by one of thefe animals in 

 the right fide, a little below the fhort 

 ribs. The wound was a] moll imper- 

 ceptible, 



