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m les hatiant avec unmarteat*^ afin fMC la ntatiere fuivau- 
te y t 'tenne tant mieux, Cela ^ait, prenez de I'eau de vie 
forte^ meslez y de la poudre a canon en farine^ tant que 
tout Joit en conjiflence dune houiU & frottez en lez mef- 
ches avec un pinieceau^ & efpardez encor dejfus,,dela poudre 
en farine, Ainfi on latjje le tout fecher tl /era prepare 
a I'ufage. 
VIL An Account of a Z'cry large Eel^ lately 
caught at Maldon in Eflex; n^tth fome Con- 
fiderations about the Generation of EelSj by 
Mr. Dale. 
TO meet with Accounts and Defcriptions of very 
la^ge Congers or Sea-Eales, is not a thing rare 
or uncommon, among the Writers of Natural Hiftory, 
and, among the reft, the Learned and moft Ingenious 
Mr, John Ray, my very good Friend and Neighbour, in 
his Ichthycgraphia. pag. 1 1. defcribes it to be a very large 
Fifli^ in thefe Words, Pifcis eft longij/imus, quatuor vel 
quinqne Culitorum longttudlnem non raro attingens^ & fe- 
moris humani crajfttiem squans. Confonant to which, 
Aldrovandus Lib. de Fife, P. 134. fiith, S<epe in qua- 
tuor aut quinque Cuhitorum longitudinem escrefcit ; and 
for Y\!€\ghi, Salvianus writes, Non majores fe vidijfe 
^uam trigwta Ulrarum: Near to which Weight, Mr. 
Daniel^ an Apothecary of Colchefter^ lately told me of 
one (if I naif-remember not) that amounted to zy or 
18 Pounds. But if we may believe what Eudoxus 
writes, fome are of a prodigious Magnitude ^ for he in 
his 
