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dried ; or rather, one* Pound is reduced to four Ounces: 
But three Pounds onfy of the living, which have 
been carefully taken off the Nopals, being killed 
and dried, produce as much. 
This is the Subftance of what I can colled from 
the Atteftations, ifc, which are printed and annexed 
at length, which the Colledor fays he has done, both 
as they contain many Circumftances unknown hither- 
to, both in his own Country ( Holland ) and elfe- 
where ; and as the Curious may be now aifured of a 
Thing which has been very uncertain for fo many 
Years, and indeed known but veryfuperficially, even 
by thofe who have embraced the Opinion^ that the 
Cochineals were really little Animals. And as there 
.may be always a (landing Evidence to evince the 
Truth of thefe Fads, he has thought fit to depofite 
the original Atteftations,. confirmed by the Certificates 
of three Magiftrates, and three publick Notaries, 
among the other Regifters of the Royal Society, by 
the Hands of Mr. ¥.a/l Surgeon, a Member of our 
Body. That this therefore may be publickly known, 
I have, in Purfuance to Order,, inferred an Abftrad 
here. 
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