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with that of Lamas. I caufed this arrow to be fhot 
into the right hinder leg of a bear, belonging to M. 
de Reaumur, which he wanted to have killed, in 
order to put it into his cabinet of natural hiflory. 
The creature immediately roared out, from the an- 
guifh of the pundture ; after which he made a tour 
round the liable, in which he was, without feeming 
to be in any pain. Soon afterwards he fell on his 
fide, and died in lefs than five minutes, having his 
throat fqueezed, as if he had been firangled. 
M. le Chevalier de Groflee had an eagle, which 
he had kept a good while in his court-yard, and in- 
tended to make a prefent of it to M. de Reaumur, 
to adorn his cabinet, but wanted to know, how to put 
it to death without damaging the feathers. M. de 
Reaumur fent him the fame arrow above-defcribed, 
which I had frefli-dipp'd in the poifon ; it was flruck 
into the wing of this large bird, which dropp'd down 
dead in an inflant. 
Such are the chief experiments, which I made 
with the poifon of Ticunas and Lamas : and here 
follows the refult of my obhrvations. 
1. In almoft all the animals, which I killed with 
the poilon of Ticunas and Lamas, I obfcrved, that, 
in general, they feemed to feel little or no pain be- 
fore dying, by the adtion of this poifon. 
2. That, before they die, thefe animals are feized 
with a fudden and almofl univerfal pally. 
3. Tho’ the colour of the blood feemed to me to 
be altered in certain animals, yet we ought not to 
draw any inference from thence j becaufe, in many 
others, the blood had undergone no fort of alteration, 
either in colour or confiflence. 
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