2X2 Of the Sting of a Scorpion. 
left therein, being unable to difengage its 
Hooks from Leather; and when it is quite 
dead, which it will not be till after feveral 
Hours, you may, by Care and Gentlenefs, 
extradt it with its Darts and Hooks. By 
fqueezing the Tail, pulling out the Sting, 
and preffing it at the Bottom, you may like?* 
wife force up the Darts ; but without feme 
Practice this will be a little difficult. 
The Bag containing the poifonous juice 
may eafily be found at the Igottom of the 
Sting , and examined, being commonly pull¬ 
ed out with it : and, by letting the Bee 
ftrike its Sting upon home hard Body, enough 
of the faid Juice may be obtained to put upon 
a Slip of Glafs, in order to view the Salts 
floating therein at hr ft, and afterwards {hoot¬ 
ing into Cryftals. 
CHAP. XXX. 
Of the Sting of a Scorpion. 
H OW far the Sting of a Scorpion is of a 
like Structure with that of a Bee, I ne¬ 
ver had the Opportunity of examining, as 
none of them are brought alive to England $ 
but the Curious that go abroad to hot Coun¬ 
tries, where they are produced, would do 
well to ehferve particularly, whether a Dart 
or 
