t > 5 ° ] 
In the Fall my Arm fwell’d, gather’d, and burtf j 
fo away went the Poifon, Spots and all ; Heaven be 
thanked for ridding me from fuch a curfed Adverfary 1 
But the moft furprifing and tormenting were my 
Dreams > for, in all SickneHes before, if I could but 
fleep and dream, I was happy fo long ; being ever in 
fome pleafing Scenes of Heaven, Earth, or Air: On 
the contrary, now if I flept, fo fure I dreamed of 
horrid Places, on Earth only ; and very often rolling 
among old Logs. Sometimes I was a white Oak 
cut in Pieces ; and frequently my Feet would be 
growing into two Hickeries. This caft a fort of Damp 
upon my waking Thoughts, to find my fleeping Hours 
difturbed with the Operation of that horrid Poifon. 
Thus have I fent you a Narrative of what happened 
on the fatal Bite, without any Polifh, with a Defign 
only to be underftood by you. 
IX. A Letter from R. Badcock, Efq\ to Mr. 
Henry Baker, F. R. S. containing fome Mi- 
crofcopical Obfervationson the Farina foecun- 
danso/ ^ Holy oak and the Paflion-Flower. 
SIR, Kenfmgm, Nov. 6 . 1745. 
lead April io. A Few Days ago I return’d from Rich - 
' 74 6 - L\. mondi and, looking on the Adver- 
tifer , faw a Book publifh’d by Mr. Needham *, Part 
of which contain’d Obfervations on the Farina foe - 
cundans. As I before had (while at Richmond) made 
fome myfelf, I immediately examin’d the Book, and 
find 
• New Mierofcopital Difcoveries, Lind. 1745. 8®. 
