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VII. A further Account of the Contents of the' 
China €abinet mentioned laji TranfaBion^ f, 
390. By Hans Sloane^ M. £>. 
Fig. 5". reprefents what is commonly, but falieJy, in 
hJia, called, The Tartarian Lamk This was more 
than a Foot long, as big as ones Wrift, having feveral 
Protuberances, and towards the end fcme Foot-fta!ks 
about Three or Four Inches long, exadly like the Foot- 
ftalks ofFernSj both without and within. Mod: part of the 
outfide of this was covered with a Down of a dark yellow- 
ifh Snuff-Colour, ihiniog like Silk, fame of it a quarter of 
an Inch long. This Do wn is what is commonly ufed for 
fpilting Blood, about Six Grains of it being to a Dofe^and 
Three Doles pretended to cure fuch an Haemorrhage. In 
Jamaica are many fcandentand Tree- Ferns, which grow 
00, or to the bignefs of Trees, and have fiich a kiad of 
Lanugo on them, and fomc of our Capi/Jaries have fome» 
thing like it. It feem'd to be ftiap d by Art to imitate 
Lamb, the Roots or climbing part is made to refemble 
theBody, and the extant Foorttalks the Legs. This Down 
IS taken Notice of by Dr. Merrei at the latter end (p. 
386.) of Dr. Gram's Muf,Soc.Reg. by the Name of F^. 
€0 Sempie, a Golden Mofs, and is there faid to be a Cor- 
dial. I have been affured by Dt, Brown, who has mads 
very good Obfer^^atioos in the Eaft-lndies^ that he has^ 
been told there by thofe who have lived io Chtna^ that ' 
this Down or Hair is uled by them for the Stopping of 
Blood in frefh Wounds, as Cobwebs are vviih us, and that 
they have it in fo great Efteem that few Koufes are 
without it. I have known it much ufed for fpitting of 
Blood I it being pretended, that Tome of the fmall Down, 
may, by being Fwallowed, eajily fltp into the Wind- 
pipe 
