. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . perfon by medicine, which weredecoctions of herbs and roots. I have feen many thus armed for a feafon do prettymuch the fame feats as thofe that pofTeffed the exemptionnaturally, the drugs were given me, and I feveral timesarmed myfelf, as I thought, refolved to try the experiment,but my heart always failed me when I came to the trial;becaufe among thefe wretched people it was a pretence theymight very probably have ftieltered themfelves under, thatI was a Chriftian, that there
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . perfon by medicine, which weredecoctions of herbs and roots. I have feen many thus armed for a feafon do prettymuch the fame feats as thofe that pofTeffed the exemptionnaturally, the drugs were given me, and I feveral timesarmed myfelf, as I thought, refolved to try the experiment,but my heart always failed me when I came to the trial;becaufe among thefe wretched people it was a pretence theymight very probably have ftieltered themfelves under, thatI was a Chriftian, that therefore it had no effect upon have itill remaining by me a fmall quantity of this root,but never had an opportunity of trying the experiment. The reader will attend to the horn which is placed overthe eye in the manner I have given the figure of it, it isfluted, and has four divifions. He will likewife obferve thetooth as viewed through a glafs. He may fuppofe theblack reprefents a painters pallet, for the eafier difcerningthe white tooth, which could not otherwife appear diftincllyupon the white paper. t J^mdo/iUcbtyka\?an f/a .//yoby ( $c*2> APPENDIX, *»* *agagstg» ?••?,--ir|1-1 .* B I N N Y. ALTHOUGH the fifh we find in the eafl are generallymore diftinguifhed for their beauty and variety ofcolours, or for their uncouth forms, rather than for thegoodnefs of the fifh itfelf, this before us appears to be an ex-ception ; though it is not without Angularities, yet its formand colour are very fimple, and, for the elegance of its tafte,may vie with any fifh caught in any river which runseither into the Mediterranean or Ocean. Whether it is theLatus, or the Oxyrinchus of antiquity, both fifties of theNile, {o famous that divine honours were paid them, bylarge cities, nomes, or diflridts fituated upon that river, iswhat I am not naturaiiil enough to difcover. Such as itis, in all its pans, I have placed it before the reader faith-fully. Vol. v: £ f By
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