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The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIC A. 
XII. Salamandra mivima, fufcs, maculis albis noteta. Tab, 273. Fig. 
7. 8. Mabouya. de du Tertre. p. 315. de Rochef. p. 147- te. 
The Wood Slave, . 
This is about an Inch long from the end of the Snout, to that 
of the Tail. Ic has two fmall Eyes, four Legs, each of, which is 
three quarters of an Inch long, with two Joints and five Toes, aa 
half Inch long, thick blunt Tail, of a reddifh brown Colour. ‘The 
Body is not near fo thick as ones. little Finger, ’ts all above of 4 
brown Colour, with white little Spots like Stars,.and white in the 
Belly, and is all over cover’d with fearce difcernible Scales. The 
Figures are different, one being taken from the Lizard when dry’d, 
and the other from one preferv’d in Spirit of Wine. 
It lodges it felf in old rotten Timber, and peeps out frequently 
frisking up and down in hot Weather. 3 
Before Rain it ufually makes a Noife and comes out, the Reafon 
may be, becaufe ir lodging in Wood, the moifture of the Air makes 
jt {well, and fo may force them ouf. - ; 
They are ufually reputed venemous, but I could never find thar 
there was any Argument making that plainly out; 
I faw once a large Spider, which had caught one of thefe Wood 
Slaves, and had fwallow’d one. half of .it, the other half hanging out 
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of its Mouth. . 
XIII. Scéncus maximus fufcus. Teb,.273. Fig..9. Mabouya on Scinc de 
terre de Dutertre. p. 314. Brochets, de terre de Rochef. p. 149, 
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This appear’d in all things to be a great Scizc, it was elevea 
Inches long from Head to Tail, and fix Inches about the middle, 
where bigeft, it was almoft round every where from a fharp round 
Snout, increafing to the middle, and from thence decreafing to the 
Tail, which ended in a Point; the Back was hard and a little com- 
prefs’d, and fo was the Belly, it had two round Spéracula or Noftrils 
in the two Corners of the Snout. About half an Inch behind them were 
the Eyes, and near an Inch further two oblong Holes for the Ears; 
about three Inches from the beginning of the Snout towards the Fail 
were the fore Feet, which had two Joints, and were not over an Inch 
and an half long, with fiye Toes like thofe.of a Lizard, the hinder Legs 
were of the fame Length, gc. and beyond them. the. Angas, cover’d 
with a tranfverfe Flap, the Back or upper Parts. were, all cover’d 
over with Rhombeidall {mall Rowes of Scales of a browm. Colour, 
with Spots of Orange Colour, and the Belly with the latter Only, . 
It hada fhort Larinx, Lungs not altogether Membranaceous, the, Heart 
as of other Animals, the Stomach not all mufcular, but made not 
fack Fafhion, but of feveral wide Circumvolutions,. with, Cells like 
thofe of the Colon in other Animals, and with all very thin and wide, 
containing the fmalleft Crabs, the Liver was. great, and. very. black, 
and there were two whitifh colour’d..Bodies aff Likenefs in Subftance 
to the Lungs, made up of feveral Lobes plac’d long Ways on,each 
fide of the Pelvis, which I took for the. Kidneys. | 
It is to be found in Marfh Grounds, in feyeral Parts of the Ifland. 
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