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red, and having a larger head proportionable to ks body, calfd 
the Cole-pearch* The water fvveet and vvholefo me; but only 
ia the three Summer months, June, July, and Auguft^ it beconjs 
every year, during the dry weather, green in the midle with an 
hairy efflorefcence- which green fubftance , being by fome vio* 
lent wind forced a ftiore , and vvith the water drunk by any 
Cattel 3 Dog , or Poultry , caufeth certain ^nd fudden death 5 
whereas at the fame time 5 that a knowing and ingenuous per. 
foil (vvhofirft acquainted me with it J favv three dogs killed 
vvith itj theHorfesthat vvere ridden into the water beyond 
the place^vvhere this green fubftanoe floated , drunk without 
any hurt 5 and that aUo , during the fame feafon , the water iq 
theftreams, that flow from it, are vvholefome. I lhall en- 
deavour, if you defire ir^ to procure fome of that fluff, and get 
it examined by a chymical analyfis. 
One thing more I mufl add, that the chief Fiflier here in- 
forcaM me, that two or three years ago fifbing in this Sea , his 
net brought up a confiderable large piece ofvvhite Amber,, 
which as a rarity he prefented to oneof the chief Fathers of the* 
Olive's Abby, to which this Sea belongs. Now fince this Sea 
is not to be fufpeded to come from the Ocean, it lying fo high, 
and about three German Miles diltant from the Ocean; and 
fince alfo the neighbouring woods that bear none, but highly 
rcfinous trees, cannot Be rcafonably faid to furnifh uichAmber, 
that conjedure, which imports that Amber is a bituminous fluid 
fubftanee^hardoed by the operations of the aqu^acrial parti- 
cles upon it ) may receive feme cooflrmation from this 
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