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I red, and having a larger head proportionable to its body, calPd 
the Cole-pearch* The water fvveet and vvholefome ; buc only 
in the three Summer months, June, July, and Auguft^ it becom$ 
every year, during the dry weather, green in the midle with an 
hairy efflorefcencejvvhieh green fubftance , being by fbme via * 
lent wind forced a fliore ^ and with the water drunk by any 
Gattelj Dog, or Poultry, caufeth certain and fudden death ; 
whereas at the (ame time 5 that a knowing and ingenuous per- 
fon ( whofirft acquainted me with it,^ favv three dogs killed 
withitj the Horfes that were ridden into the vw2itQ.r beyond 
the placejwhere this green (ubftanoe floated, drunk withouc 
any hurt 5 and that alio , during the fame feafon , the water ia 
theftreams, that flow from it , are vvholefome. I ftiall en- 
deavour, if you defire ir^ to procure fome of that fliufF^ and get 
it examined by a chymical analyfis. 
One thing more Imufl: add, that the chief Fiflier here in- 
forna*d me, that two or three years ago fifl7ing in this Sea , his 
net brought up a confiderable large piece of white Amber 
which as a rarity he prefented to one of the chief Fathers of the 
Olive's Abbyj to which this Sea belongs. Now fince this Sea 
is not to be fufpccJled to come from the Ocean, it lying fo high, 
and about three German Miles difl:ant from the Ocean; and 
fince alfo the neighbouring woods that bear none^ but highly 
refinous trees, cannot be reafonably faid to furnifli fuch Amber, 
that conjedurej which imports that Amber is a bituminous fluid 
fubfl;anee5 hardDea by the operations of the aqu acrial parti-^ 
cles upon it , may receive fome cooflrmation from this 
account. 
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