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Don Ulloa % fpeaking of the Indian 

 Arrow-poifon, attributes to it a frigo- 

 rific quality, and fays it kills by coagu- 

 lating the blood. How he came by 

 the knowledge of thefe particulars, I am 

 uncertain 5 but De la Condamine no 

 where mentions them; nor did any figns 

 of coagulation ever appear in the fluids 

 of thofe animals which have been killed 

 in Europe, with the Poifon of Lamas and 

 Vicunas J f. But if what Ulloa fays be 

 true, the Poifon of the Peruvian and» 

 Amazonian Indians muft be different 

 from that of the Indians on the Coaft of 

 Guiana, fince the latter rather diffolves 

 than coagulates the blood, as I have 



* Vide Relacion hiftorica del Viage al America 

 Meridional, tffc. par Don Jorga Juan t$ Don An- 

 tonio Ulloa^ C5f c. 



f See in the Philofophical Tranfaftions, vol. xlvii. 

 p. 75. Experiments made on a great number of 

 living animals with thefe Poifons, by Mr. Herif- 

 fant % M. D. and F. R. S. 



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