M Park Dolins

ESSAY

ON THE

NATURAL HISTORY

O F

GUIANA,

In SOUTH AMERICA.

CONTAINING

A Description of many Curious PRODUCTIONS
in the ANIMAL and VEGETABLE SYSTEMS
of that Country.

Together with an Account of

The RELIGION, MANNERS, and CUSTOMS
of feveral Tribes of its Indian Inhabitants.
Interspersed with

A Variety of Literary and Medical OBSERVATIONS.
In SEVERAL LETTERS

FROM

A GENTLEMAN of the MEDICAL FACULTY,
During his Refidence in that Country.

Ad res pulcherrimas ex tenebris ad lucem erutas alieno
labore deducimur,

SENECA, De brevitate vita, cap. xiv.

LONDON,

Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT
in the Strand. MDCCLXIX.

203. e. 132.

TOT!

WILLIAM PITCAIRN, M. D.

FELLOW of the Royal COLLEGE of PHYSICIANS in LONDON,

AND

PHYSICIAN of ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL,

This ESSAY

Is Inscribed,

With Respect and Gratitude,

By his most humble,

and most devoted Servant,

EDWARD BANCROFT.