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If thefe Hints meet with your Approbation, I fhall 
think it a fufficient Recompence for the Trouble I 
have taken 5 and am, with great Refpeft, 
SIX, 
Tour mo ft Obedient, 
'■&Uer [gate -Street, Jan, 2.6. 
1744, Humble Servant, 
W. Watfon, 
VIII. ExtraEl of a Letter from Bombay, 
dated January 23. 1743-4. communicated 
by Francis Woolafton, Ef quire , F. R t S. 
of a Porcupine J wallowed by a Snake . 
Read Jan. 
1744. 
3 1 * 
S OME time ago there was found, on 
an Ifland adjacent to this, a large 
Snake, dead, with a Porcupine in its Belly. Perhaps 
you may not know* that a Snake always fucks in its 
Food by degrees. This had feized the Porcupine by 
the Head j and had fo fucked it in. When it wag 
quite in, the Quills, which were flatted down whilft 
it was going in, rofe 5 ran through the Snakes Belly % 
and killed it : So that there was a monftrous large 
Snake dead, with the Quills of a Porcupine flicking 
out of it in many Places*, 
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