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be extracted from them an oyl, which is excellent for the cu- 

 ring of cold Gouts, and is very fuccefsfully ufed to mollifie the 

 hard and callous parts of the body. 



There are befides, two other forts of fmall Snails which 

 are very beautiful : One is flat, after the fafhion of a Scotch- 

 mans Bonnet, and of a dark colour : The other is fharp, and 

 turned like the Vice of a Prefs, and hath fmall, red, yellow, 

 or blew (creaks or lines, for which they are much efteemed by 

 the curious. 



GLO-WOKUES. 



THere are in thefe Iflands feveral kinds of great Flies of 

 divers figures and colours : but we muft affign the fit it 

 place to thofe which the French call Mouches Lumincujes^ and 

 we may EngliQi Glo-veormes : Some Savages call them Cucuyos, 

 and the Caribbians by a name not much differing from it, Cojou- 

 you. This Fly is notrecommendable for its beauty, or figure, 

 as having nothing extraordinary as to either , but only tor its 

 luminous quality : they are of a dark colour, and about the 

 bignefs of a Locuft : it hath two hard and ftrong wings, under 

 which are two lefter wings very thin, which appear not but 

 when it flies 5 and it is then alfo it may be obferv'd that un- 

 der thofe leder wingsthereisa brightness, like that of a Can- 

 dle, which enlightens all about it : befides, the eyes of this In- 

 fecl: are fo luminous, thar be it ever fo dark, it flies any where in 

 the night , which is the time that this glittering iight may 

 be feen. 



• It makes no noife flying, and lives only on flowers which it 

 gathers off the Trees. Being taken between ones fingers, it is 

 fo fmooth and llippery, that by the little endeavours it makes 

 to recover its liberty, it infenfibly gets away : Being kept in 

 captivity it conceals all the light it hath under the wings, and 

 communicates only that of its eyes, but even that very weak- 

 ly in comparifon of the brightnefs it (heds being at liberty: it 

 hath no fling, nor any claw for its defence : The Indians are 

 gir d to have of them in their houfes, for they ferve them in- 

 ftead of Lamps : but indeed of their own accord, in the night 

 time , they come into thofe rooms which are not kept too 

 clofe. 



There are in thefe Iflands certain fining Worms ^ which alfo 

 fli p it All parts of Italy , and all the other parts of the Levant , are 

 alfo full of them. 



But how famous foever thefe little Stars of the Eaft may be, 

 yet are they but fmall fparkles in comparifon of the great fire 

 which thefe flying Torches of America caft forth : For they 

 do not only guide the Traveller by fhewing him his way in the 

 night , but with the afliftance of this light a man may eafily 



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