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home, and differed it : In the Head 1 met with what 
has not been obferved before by any, that I caii 
remember that is, a Clufter of Teeth on each' 
Side the upper Jaw, at the Root of the great Fangs^ 
through which the Poifon is ejected. — I obferved, in 
the fame Cafe, that the two main Teeth were flieathed' 
m-, lay four others at the Root of each Tooth, in a 
Cltifter together, of the fame Shape and Figure with 
the great ones and I am apt to think for the fame 
Ufe and Purpofes, if by Accident the main Teethe 
happen to be broken as was the Fellow to this 
that I fend you. May not thefe Clufter of Teeth 
be placed to fupply fuch a Defed fticceflively— for 
the Support and Defence of this^ Creature ? < 
1 am not certain whether this is an uncommon 
Cafe; perhaps others have not diflefled the Head of» 
this Animal with the Care that I have done. 
Lam yours, 
John Bartrami . 
X5C. Notices of fome Meteors ohferved at 
ladelphia in North- America hy Jofephs 
Brelntnall, extraLfed out of a Letter from 
him to Peter Collinfon,. F. R. S. 
Philadelphia^ May 
T H E remarkable Aurora Borealis, that was 
feen in Europe the Beginning of laR De- 
cember, was not feen here. 
But- 
