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To Brazil

some assuring us that it proceeded from fish who made the light by agitating the salt water as they calld it in their darting at their prey while others said that they had often seen them & knew them to be nothing but blubbers (Medusas) This made us very Eager to procure some of them which at last we did one by the help of the landing net they prov'd to be a species of Medusa which when brought on board appeard like metal violently heated emitting a white light. On the surface of this animal a small Lepas was fixd exactly the colour of it which was almost transparent not unlike thin starch in which a small quantity of blue is disolv'd in taking these animals three or 4 species of Crabbs were taken also but very small
 

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