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'a1 worm, and extends above fixteen inches. His body
is covered with long hair, of a dark brown, with white
flripes on the ihoulders ; and when he ileeps he covers-
his body with his tail. .
The mineral part of the cabinet, containing precious
hones, marbles, ores, 8cc. is very perfed. Amortgft
other curiofities they have a grain o f gold o f 22 carats,
which-weighed fixteen marks, four ounces, four ochavos,
Spanifh weight, found in California, and fent by the
viceroy of Mexico as a prefent worthy o f his majefiy s
acceptance (0) ; alfo feveral curious fpecimens o f filver
©re, from the Guadalcanal mine in Efiremadura, of that
fort called Rofider.
Specimens of Mexican and Peruvian utenfils, vafes,.
8cc. in earthenware of that kind, which the Spaniards
call Barra, wretched both in tafte and execution. Some
productions likewife of Otaheite, which the Spaniards
call amath.
A curious collection of vafes, bafons, ewers, cups,
plates, and ornamental pieces o f the fineft agates, ame-
thyfts, rock cryfials, &c. mounted in.gold, and. enamel,,
(a) A curious treatife, now very fcarce, was publifhed; at Mexico, by the viceroy, in
Jjine 1771, intitled■ Noticia Breve de la Expedición Milatar dé Sonora y Ginaleo, fu Exito
félix y ventajofo eftado, en que por confequencia de ello fe ha puéflo ambas provincias. See
further account o f this expedition in Robertfon’s' hiftory o f America. Note LX V. vol. 2.
fet.