14 A NATURAL HISTORY 



conveyed to Rome in Triumph *. This , is the more credible, 

 fays Pliny^ becaufe, in Italy, we fee other Serpents, called Boce^ fo 

 large that in the Reign of Claudius^ there was one of them killed 

 in the Vatican, within whofe Belly was found an Infant whole -|'. 



Among ih^ Andes in America, are Serpents of prodigious Mag- 

 nitude, from 25 to 30 Foot long J. In the Province of Caria^ 

 are Serpents ten Yards long, and ten Hands broad, and their Eyes 

 as large as two fmall Loaves. In Brafil, are found Serpents 30 

 Foot long. In Grejham-College, London^ is a Snake preferved in 

 Spirits, that is near two Yards long. 



I N Norway, we read of two Serpents of very large Proportion : 

 One of two hundred Foot long, and lives in Rocks and defolate 

 Mountains, near the Sea, about Bergen 5 which in Summer- 

 Nights ranges about in queft of Plunder, devouring Lambs, 

 Calves, Swine, and other Animals, that fall in its way. In a 

 calm Sea, it ranfacks the Superficies of the Water, and devours 

 the Polypus (i. e. a little Fifh of many Feet) and all forts of Sea- 

 Crabs. Upon the Approach of a Ship, this Serpent lifts up 



its Head above Water, and fnatchesat the Mariners. My Author 

 adds, that it rolls itfelf round about the Ship, the more efFed:u- 

 ally to fecure its Prey || . The Reprefentation of this you have 

 in C. Gejner, 



The other Serpent is in the Diocefs of Hammer, about fifty 

 Cubits long, by Conjedure. In Bothnia, on the Livonian Sea, 

 we read of monftrous Serpents, with which the Shepherds of that 

 Country were in conftant War. Wonderful Things are reported 

 of the large Serpents that infeft the Helvetian Motmtains, From 

 the Inftances above, 'tis evident that the Northern Climates breed 

 Serpents as well as the South j but with this Difference, that they 

 are not fo venomous as thofe in Africa, tho' Olaiis Magnus, Arch- 

 bilhop of Upjaly feems to except the Shrew-Serpent. Ibid. 



There are Marine,^s well as Land-Dragons, of uncommon 

 Bignefs : Some in Ethiopia of 30 Paces long, and in Phrygia ten 



Paces long. A^. B, A geometrical Pace is five Foot ; 



but if it be the leffer Pace only, viz, the Meafure of two Foot 



and 



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 Gelli' Noit.Att. Liber V\,Cap. iii. f Nat. Hifi, B. VIII. Cap. xiv. X Be 



Le Vega. || Ol<ius Magn. B.xxi. C. 2~. p. 23. Gejher ex Ssalig. 



