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For Guaiana and Brafil. 
i. \T Hether about Urraba near Oron^ue , fomeR degrees 
v V Northern Latitude , and about the Town Darien, 
Toads are prefently produced , by throwing a kind -of Moorifh 
Water found there, upon the Floors of their Houfes? Linfchoten . 
2. Whether it be true , that the Locuft of Brafil , call’d Caay- 
ara , changeth in the Spring- time of that Countrey into a Plant, 
and withers away , like a Plant 1 And whether in the fame Coun- 
trey , that kind of Erne a , call’d by the Portugals Lagartas des 
Verias , turns into a Bird , admirable for Colour and fwife flying 5 
the change thereof being made fo leafurely., that one may fora 
while fee half of the Infed, and the other half of the Bird , which 
the Natives call Guainumbi , the Portugals Pegafrel. Pifo. 
3. Whether upon the Leaves of that Brafihan Tree , call’d Ce- 
re iba , there is, in a Sun-fliiny day, found a White Salt in that 
quantity , that one may gather as much from two or three Leaves, 
as will well (alt a good pot of Broth < Pifo , 
4. Whether there be found, about the mouth of the River of 
Amazons , a green Argilla , which, though very foft under wa- 
ter , yet, when expofed to the Air , grows almofl: as hard as a Di- 
amond • - in fo much that the Natives make Hatchets of them , 
ftrong and fliarp enough to cleave Wood $ for which purpofe alfc 
thofe Indians are faid to have ufed it , before they got Iromones < 
And, whether this Argilla , become Stone , have a peculiar ver- 
tue againfl: the Epilepfy , when carried by the Patient ? Pelleprat 
in his Relation of the ijlands and Terr a- fir ma of the Southern 
America . 
5. Whether the Slack Bees in Guaiana , about the River ore- 
noque , make black Honey and Waxe? And whether they have 
no Stings , as the fame Belief rat affirmeth ? 
A ftuun The other Inquiries , ready for the other Countries above-named. 
IjfSQg,}. y-jc, tjh are, to avoid tedmfnefs , referredtoanother opportunity . 
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