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XI. -A Continuation of an Account of Ati 
Efiay towards a Natural Hiftory of Caro- 
lina , and the Bahama Iflands 5 by Mark 
Catesby, F. R. S. with fome Extracts out 
of the ninth Set , by Dr. Mortimer, Seer. 
R. S. 
T HE Extrads and Account of the eighth Set arc 
inferred in N° 441 . ofthefe EhilofophicalTranf- 
actions, p. iji.&feq. This ninth Set begins with 
Plate 6 1, of the fecond Volume ; and as the fore- 
going treated chiefly of Serpents, this contains the 
Figures and Defcriptions of feveral Quadrupeds, inter- 
mix'd with Plants. The Author begins with the mod 
beautiful flowering Tree of thefe Parts, and I may 
venture to fay, of the known World 5 he gives a very 
magnificent Figure of it in Plate 
61. Magnolia altijjtma , flore ingenti Candida. 
The Laurel-Tree of Carolina * 
The native Places of thefe fine fragrant-flower'd 
Trees are Florida and South Carolina* but they have 
been fo far naturalized to the Climate of England , as 
for feveral Years to have flower’d in the Garden of Sir 
john Colliton of Exmouth in E)evonfhire , and at 
Earfons -Green, in the Garden of the Rt. Hon. Sir 
Charles Wager . 
62. Eutorius Americanus ftriatus . The Pol-cat. 
Thefe Creatures, when attacked, can from fome 
fecret Dufts emit fuch fetid Effluviums, that neither 
Men, or but few Dogs, care to approach them s they 
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