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iiiaialsand plants to be found there, the^Temperature of 
the Air^ the Manners of the Inhabitants^thetr number^their 
wealth, and the commodities they trade in. 
He obferves, that about the Upper part of theriVert^ 
rugaifytov^mds Parana and the Province of Paraguais, tj^ere 
are rich Gold-mines, difcover'd by Jefuitest^oi whiehthe 
Gold is much finer than that of Per on, ^ 
In the fame Province grows an Herb call d Herb of )v^. 
^2/^/V,ordinarily given to the Mine-men afHiaed bytheSuI- 
phureousand other damps of the Mines^whoare recover'd 
by drinking the decodion thereof, which makes them vo- 
mit up with great eafe whatever troubles their flomack. 
In the way from Buenos-ayres to Percu^ about S. Jagedel 
Eftroj as he met with Tigers very fierce, fo he found theLy. 
ons very gentle. About the fame place he found thbfe Ani^ 
mals callM Gumacosj as big as Horles, with long necksjic- 
de heads, and (hort tayls; having in their flomack the Bf- 
Speaking of the Ojiriches abounding in that Country, he 
relateth a remarkable thing, which he faith he hath feen, 
vi^. That, when that Bird is hatching her Eggs, and 
they are ready to hatch^ftie breaks four of them and car- 
ries them to the four corners of the place (he is hatching 
in: which Eggs thus broken coming to corrupt^there is in a 
little time bred out of them a great quantity of worms, 
with which the youogones, when hatched, arefeduotill 
they are able to goand feek for their food eifewhercj^r* 
P, 5108. 1. 2. r. M^ch htFsbr, p. 511$. 1* 7- i^- Fhdnomena. 
LONDON, 
Printed fer John Martyn , Printer to the Royal Society^ 
1672. V 
