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 but it is reckoned unwholeome, and to occaion the leproy.

The kins of the tête du chien nakes are excellent for covering word-heaths, or other intrument caes, for which purpoe they are in general ued; but ome urgeons make ue of them in medicine.

Lizards are very numerous in this iland, and are of everal kinds; ome of a green, others of a yellow, and ome beautifully potted with both colours. They are very harmles, feed on flies, worms, and other mall infedls, which render them very erviceable on the plantations. The ground lizard, one of the larget of that pecies, and of a black colour, has lately been dicovered to be an excellent remedy for the leproy, when made into broth.

The wood-lave is a pecies of the lizard kind, but of a more hideous figure, and is reckoned to be venomous. Its head is haped like