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quainted only with the Poifon of La- 

 mas % as it does not appear that he 

 ever vifited the River of the Amazons ; 

 but as neither this, nor the Amazonian 

 Poifon, after repeated experiments, have 

 betrayed thofe qualities he afcribes to 

 them, it appears probable, that, for 

 want of a more perfect knowledge of 

 the adlion of Poifons in general, he 

 might have imagined that the efFedls of 

 the Arrow-poiion could only refult front 

 refrigeration and coagulation, and there- 

 fore endowed them with thefe qualities* 

 on the ftrength of conje&ure. 



I ought to have before informed you, 

 that the feveral ingredients mentioned 

 in the Recipe for compounding the Ac- , 



% The Poifon of Lamas takes its name from a 

 tribe of Indians of that name in Peru. It is lefs 

 acYive than that of Ticunas ; but the mo ft fatal ef- 

 fects are faid to refult from a mixture of both. 



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