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ca]'cd Eerkelfe-Sea^ whofe bottom in many places is very moorifli. 
This wa^er is in Winter very clear, but about beginning or in the 
iii.dfl; of Summer it grows whitifh, and there are then fmall green 
clouds permeating it, which the Country-men, dwelling near it, fay 
is catifed from the Dews chenfalling^ and call ic Hony-devp^ This 
water is abounding in Fifli, which is very good and favoury* Faf- 
fing lately over this Sea ac a time , when ic blew a frefii gale of 
wind,and cbferving the water as above-defcribed, I took up fome 
of ic in a GJafs-veffel, which having view'd the next day, I found 
moving in it feveral Earthy particles , and fome green ftreaks, ' 
fpirally ranged , afer the manner of the Copper or Tin- 
worms , ufed by Diflillers to cool their diftilled waters; and 
the whole conipaf:> of each of thefe ftreaks was about the thicknefs 
of a man- hair on his head : 0:her particles had but the beginning of 
the faid ftreak ; all confining of fmall green globuls interfperfed ; 
among al 1 which there crawled abundance of little animals, fome of 
which were ronndifli'jthofe that werefomewhat bigger than others, 
were of an Oval figure : On thefe latter I faw two Jeggs near the 
head, andtw^o little fins on the other end of their body : Others 
were fomewhat lajger than an Oval, and thefe were very flow in 
their motion, and few in number. Thefe mimdcuU had divers co- 
lours, fome being whitifh, others pellucid ; others had green and 
very finning little fcales ; others again were green in the middle , 
and before and behind white, others grayifli. And the motion of 
moftof them in the water was fo fwift,3nd fo various, upwards, 
downwards, and roundabout, that Iconfefs I could not but won- 
der ac it. I judge, that fome of thefe little creatures were above 
a thoufand time^ fmaller than the fmalleH: ones.which I have hither- 
o feen in cbees,whea ten flower, mould, and the like. 
Vie aFRICJNISCHE La^dfihafi FEtU be{chfuben durcb 
Wi'helm Johan Muller-z/f?;^ Bar burgh Gedruckt zu Hamburgh^ 
1673» in r2o. 
THis piece, compofed and printed in High-dutch , containing 
divers not inconfiderableobfervations made by an Author, 
tba?- lived eight years in Fetu \ it was thought, the Reader would 
notbedifpleafed to find fuch of 'he Obfervations as are futable 
w ith the defign of thefe Papers, EngliOied, and transferred hither. 
The Province or Country of FETU, (the fubjefl: of this Book,) 
is fcitiia'-e about themiddleof theGold-coaft in Gui/ij/^ in 5'-deg. 
Northern latitude ; In length reaching from Cabo Corfo to rhebor- 
ders 
