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The Natural Hiftory of} AM ATCA. 
hint; then he wéuld’ give them Leave''to twift themfelves about his 
Aviny as théy pleas’d. ’He kil?d' them by putting their Tails under 
bis Poot, taking them behind ‘their Necks and ftretching their Back- 
boties, and twifting and pinching bard- their Lungs and Trachee 
Arteria. ; 7 . 
A Hunter told ‘me, that once hearin? his Companion groan, lying 
by him, he faw that by a Snake’s twifting its {elf about him he could 
not fpeak, that by a Stick of Fire held to it, the Snake ftretch’d out 
his Head and hifs’d, which he by a Bill cut off, and freed the 
Perfon, who related he could;not long. have fubfifted without He!p; 
itprobably ftops the Circulation of the Blood, by twifting its felf round 
the Body of an Animal . 
Snakes neftle about old Cabbage-Tree’ hollow Stumps, if you cleave 
them with an Ax, fo foon as the Snakes perceive the Light they thruft 
out their Head, and are kill’d. - 
I had one of this Kind tam’d by an Indian for me. It would fol- 
low the Indian as a Dog would his Mafter. 
Il. Serpens major nigricans. 
‘The black Snake is only fmaller, elfe in every thing the fame, al- 
though not venemous. Y ) 
Il. Serpens major cinereus. © 
There is a Sort likewife of a light ‘gtey Colciit 
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