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make an unfupportable Ulcer, and all the foot cor- 
rupts. 
In the Kingdom of Congo, there zxft Serpents twenty five 
foot long, whichwill fvvaliow ac once a whole Sheep. The 
manner of taking them is thus: When they lie to digeft 
what they have eaten , they ftretch themfelves forth in the 
Sun : which the Blacks feeing, kill them. And having cut off 
their Head and Tail, and embowcrd them , they eat them ; 
and ordinarily find them as fat as Hogs. 
There are here a great number of jintSy and of that big- 
nefs, that the Author reports, that being one day fick in his 
bed, he was forced to order himfelf to be carried out of his 
room for fear of being devoured by them. As it oftea 
happens to thofe of Angola: where you may alfo find in the 
morning, the Skelitonsof Corvs devoured by thefe Ants in 
one nighc» 
Amongft other fair Fruit Trees in Br^^^// there is one, 
whofc Fruit is called iV/f^j/i; which hath this remarkable, 
that it hath but two Leaves 3 whereof each is able to cover 
a man. 
Extrai} of a Letter from Mr, Edmund Pitt, Alderman of 
Worcefter, a very knorving Botanift ; concerning the Sor- 
bus Pyriformis^ 
T Aft year I found a Rarity growing wild in a Foreft 
of this County of Wcrcejler. It is defcribed by 
X*OW/«j under the name of Sorlpus Pyriformu : as alfo by 
Mathiolus upon Diofcorides. And by Bauhimtts^ under the 
name of Sorbte^ Procera. And they agree, that vaFrancej 
Germany^ and Italy they are commonly found. But neither 
Thefe, nor any of our own Country-men, as Gerard^ Par- 
kinfon^Johnfon^Hom^ nor thofe Learned Authors M^rm or' 
I?^/, have taken notice of its being a Native of England. 
Kor have any of our Englijh Writers fo much as mention'd 
it. Saving, that Mr» L^^^, in his Tranflation of Dodcnaus^ 
defcribes ic under the name of the Sorb" Apple. But faith 
no more of the flace^ but that it groweth in Dutch' 
hand. 
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