ForGuaiana ^w^Brafil. 
I. T T THether about Urrdan^ox Oroncque^ fomeS. degrees 
V V Northern Latitude, and about the Toiin Darien , 
Toads areprefently produced, by throwing a kind of Moorilh 
Water found there, upon the Floors of their lioviks< Linfchoten, 
2. Whether it be crue, that theLocuft otBraflj call'd Caaj- 
4r^^ changeth in the Spring-time of that Countrey into a PLmt , 
ana withers avvay^like a Plant < and whether in the fame Coun- 
trty, that kind of Eruca^ call'd by the Portugals Lagmas du 
Ferias^mns into a Bird, admirable for Colour and fwift flying 5 
the change thereof being made fo leafurely, that.one may for a 
while fee half of the Infedi^ a-nd the other half of the Bird,which 
the Natives call Guaimmbi^ the Portugals Pegafrei Pifi. 
5. Whether upon the Leaves of that Brafdian Tree^caU'd C^- 
reihay there is, in a Sun-ffiiny day, found a White Salt in that 
quantity, that one may gather as much from two or three Leaves, 
^5 will well fait a good pot of Broth i Pifo. 
4. Whether there be found about the mouth of the River of 
Amazons , a green Argilla^ which, though very foft under wa- 
ter, yet, when expofed to the Air, grows almoft as hard as a Di- 
amond 5 in fomuch that the Natives make Hatchets oi xkitm ^ 
ftrong and lharp enough to cleave Wood ^ for which purpofe 2I- 
fo thofe Indians are faid to have ufed it,before they got Iron-ones i 
And, whether this Argilla^ become Stone, have a peculiar vertue 
' againft the Epilepfy^wbcn carried by the Patient f Pe/leprat in 
his Relation oith^Jfiandsznd Terra- firma of the Southern Ame- 
rica, 
5. Whether the black Bees in Guaianay about the River Ore- 
make black Honey and Waxe^ And whether they have 
no Stings, as the fame Pelleprat affirmeth 
The other Inquiries i read) for the other Countries above-named^ 
arey to avoid tedioufnef^ referred to another opfortt^nitj. 
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