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which laft may perhaps ferve to aug- 

 ment its activity. The tVorrows like- 

 wife add feveral frivolous articles, pro- 

 bably in obedience to the inftrudtions 

 of their anceftors, to which they fjper- 

 ftitioufly adhere. But the ignorant are 

 ever fond of amaffing a farrago of in- 

 gredients in cornpolition, abfurdly ex- 

 pecting thereby to obtain the end de- 

 fired with more certainty ; and the fu- 

 perfluous articles, added by the Arro- 

 wy auks to the Indian poifon, are not 

 more whimfical than many ingredients 

 which once entered the hotch-potch 

 officinal compositions of pharmacy. 



The following is the recipe by which 

 the Accawau Arrow Poifon is ufually 

 prepared, and which I have procured 

 from feveral of their Peii's, or phyficians, 

 at different times, who all exa&ly a- 

 greed in the number and identity of the 

 ingredients, bat with fome variation in 



their 



