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Hiftory, and gives us Defcriptions and Figures of 
things fcarce ever feen or heard of before in Europe, 
which he has collected from all Parts of the World, 
with vail: Charge as well as Induftry. 
The Firft Volume contains m Plate?, befides the 
Author’s Effigies, and the Decorations curioufly En- 
graven by the beft Hands. He begins with the 
Anatomy and Skeletons of feveral Fruits, Leaves, 
and Roots: The Method of performing which, 
he communicated to the Royal Society fotne time 
ago ; ’tis printed in the Philof. TranfaH. N°. 415. 
He then goes on with a Defcription of feveral curious 
exotic Plants, with a particular Account of the Za- 
goe Amboynenfium, Morus Papyrifera , Sic. After 
thefe follow a great Variety of different forts of Ani- 
mals from all parts of the World. Armadillo's, Ai, 
or Sloths, Spiders, Millepedes, Scorpions, Plying . 
Squirrels, Opojj'ums , Mice, Rats, Cats, Dogs, large 
Frogs and Toads. A Defcription of the Pipal, a fort 
of T oad, whofe Toung are produced on the Back of the 
Female. An Account of the Transformation of Frogs 
from Pipes, and back again from Frogs to Fijbes. 
Several kinds of fcarce Lizards, Iguana's , Chame- 
leons, Salamanders, TortoiJ'es, Crocodiles j of which 
two laft, fome are reprefented in the Eggs, and fome 
juft excluded. A Dragon or Ba/ilisk from Ameri- 
ca, with above fifty feveral forts of Serpents. 
FINIS, 
