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WESTERN HINDOOSTAN,
Turbo Scaia-
ris,
Barbiers, a
Disease.
Fishes failing
on Land.
Among the variety of beautiful fhells found on the coaft, is
the noted Turbo Scalaris, or Wentle-trap, a fhell feldom an inch
and a quarter long, of a pearly color, and with about feven
fpires, each having feveral elegant ridges, eroding them from
the firft. fpire to the laft; a fine reprefentation of the winding
ftaircafe. A painter I knew, filled with the Concha-mania,
once gave fifty-fix guineas for three of them, one alone he
valued at twenty-five.
Some few other things, refpe&ing the natural hiftory of
Bombay and its neighborhood, may be here taken notice of.
The difeafes of India begin to fhew themfelves in this place,
but I fhall only attend to the Barbiers, which is more prevalent
on this fide of the peninfula of India than the other. It is a
palfy, which takes its name from Beriberii, or the fheep, as the
afHidted totter in their gait like that animal when feized with a
giddinefs. Its fymptoms are both a numbnefs, a privation of the
ufe of the limbs, a tremor, and an attendant titillation ufually
not fatal, but extremely difficult of cure. It comes on flowly,
and ufually in the rainy feafon; but if a perfon drinks haftily,
when heated, a large draught of Toddy, or the liquor of the coco
nut, the attack of the difeafe is very fudden. Bontius, (Englijh
edition, p. i), treats largely of the cure. He recommends
flrongly baths or fomentations of the 'Nochi/e of the Malabars,
or Lagondi of the Malays^ or the Jafminum Indicum.
The phcenomenon of fmall fifh. appearing in the rainy fea-
fon, in places before dry, is as true as it is furprifing. The
natives begin to fifh for them the tenth day after the firft rains.,
,and
WESTERN HINDOOSTAN,
Turbo Scaia-
ris,
Barbiers, a
Disease.
Fishes failing
on Land.
Among the variety of beautiful fhells found on the coaft, is
the noted Turbo Scalaris, or Wentle-trap, a fhell feldom an inch
and a quarter long, of a pearly color, and with about feven
fpires, each having feveral elegant ridges, eroding them from
the firft. fpire to the laft; a fine reprefentation of the winding
ftaircafe. A painter I knew, filled with the Concha-mania,
once gave fifty-fix guineas for three of them, one alone he
valued at twenty-five.
Some few other things, refpe&ing the natural hiftory of
Bombay and its neighborhood, may be here taken notice of.
The difeafes of India begin to fhew themfelves in this place,
but I fhall only attend to the Barbiers, which is more prevalent
on this fide of the peninfula of India than the other. It is a
palfy, which takes its name from Beriberii, or the fheep, as the
afHidted totter in their gait like that animal when feized with a
giddinefs. Its fymptoms are both a numbnefs, a privation of the
ufe of the limbs, a tremor, and an attendant titillation ufually
not fatal, but extremely difficult of cure. It comes on flowly,
and ufually in the rainy feafon; but if a perfon drinks haftily,
when heated, a large draught of Toddy, or the liquor of the coco
nut, the attack of the difeafe is very fudden. Bontius, (Englijh
edition, p. i), treats largely of the cure. He recommends
flrongly baths or fomentations of the 'Nochi/e of the Malabars,
or Lagondi of the Malays^ or the Jafminum Indicum.
The phcenomenon of fmall fifh. appearing in the rainy fea-
fon, in places before dry, is as true as it is furprifing. The
natives begin to fifh for them the tenth day after the firft rains.,
,and