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Rh There are also Spiders, Flies, and Wasps. They know nothing of any venomous Animals, as Serpents and the like; nor have they any Snakes, Toads, Frogs, Beetles, Ants, or Bees; neither are they plagued with Rats, Mice, or any such Vermine. 



Greenland Sea, abounds in different Sorts of Animals, Fowls and Fihes, of which the Whale bears the Sway, and is of divers Kinds, Shapes and Sizes. Some are called the Finned Whales, from the Fins they have upon their Back near the Tail; but thee are not much valued, yielding but little Fat or Blubber, and that of the meaner ort; they conit of nothing but lean Fleh, Sinews and Bones. They are of a long, round and lender  Rh