A catalogue of the rarities to be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-house in Chelsea. To which is added, a complete list of the donors thereof / [Don Saltero].

  • Saltero, Don.
Date:
[1782?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of the rarities to be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-house in Chelsea. To which is added, a complete list of the donors thereof / [Don Saltero]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    143 Aftarvedcat found between the walls of Weftniinfter-abbey 144 Starved rats 145 A fine large tarapin, or land- turtle 146 An antique chifel 147 A cocoa nut and cufliaw apple CEILING. 1 A Starved Champanfee in 2 An Efcumax canoe 3 The trumpet-fifh, gives notice of his frightful approach — — purfued with adilla g fifii ““ I 8 A young mark 9 The cockold-fifh JO The fea-parrot fifh j I A John Dory fith 12 The old wife filh 13 Thelump-fifli 1 4 The cat-fifh 15 The fea-porciipine 16 The fcaly lizard I 7 A dolphin I 8 A gold fifli 1 9 The green fifli 20 The remora, or fucking-fifli 2 r Balls of hair taken out of the maws'of oxen 22 A calabath 23 A model of the ribs of a man of war’s long boat 24 A large Cougar eel 25 A rattle-fnake 26 The head of a pike 27 The fword and jaws of a fword- filh 28 The gallow wafp 29 A dog-fifh 30 The jaws of a jack with about 1000 teeth 3 I The jaws of a fkeate 32 The fhell of a fea-turtle 33 The head of a large turtle 34 The cocoa-tree pod with nuts in it 35 The tube plant 36 Black coral 37 A fine large alligator froin Egypt 38 The mermaid filh 39 The fcythe-fifh 40 A land armadilla Jhks: 41 The grand polipus, 15 inches long, and which is endowed with the moft furprifing won- ders of nature, viz. It is call- ed an animal, vegetable, or water-plant, with all the ap- pearance of life, and (like the ftar-fifli) is not to be de- firoyed imlefs by fire. If cut acrofs, each feparate piece acquires a new head and a new tail; if fplit lengthw’ays, each heals up, and becomes two feparate and complete polipi; if cut in many pieces, and in any direflion, and turned infideout (as a glove) every fingle piece, in a very fiiort fpace of time, becomes a dirtindl live polypus, and will move and feed itfelf. 42 The jaws of a wild boar, that was fiarved to death by his tw'O tufks growing inwards, aMi'