OF SERPEN TS. 15 



and a half, it muft be a monftrous Animal *. — In the 



Reign of Philadelphus, two Live-Dragons were brought from 

 Ethiopia to Alexandria^ one 13, the other 14 Cubits long. In 

 the Reign of King Euergefes, they took three Dragons, one feven 

 Cubits, the other nine Cubits long. The third was carefully 

 nurfed in the Temple of Efculapius, and no Creature fo highly 

 reverenced -f*. 



O N the Pellonaon Hill in Chius^ was a Dragon whofe hideous 

 Noife filled the Vicinity with Horror and Dread; fo terrible, 

 that none durft approach fo near as to take its Dimenfions. It 

 happened, the Wildernefs wherein it lived, took fire in a Storm ; 

 and being involved in Smoke and Fire, it perifhed, and, upon 

 viewing its Bones, 'twas concluded to be of a monftrous Bulk. 

 Ibid. 



The Ethiopian Dragons juil: mentioned, have no proper Name, 

 and are only known by a Periphrafis, viz. Killers of Elephants. 

 The Method is, by winding themfelves about the Elephants Legs, 

 and then thrufting their Heads up their Noftrils, fling them, and 

 fuck their Blood till they are dead. 



ALEXANDER, in his Tour th^o iht Red-Sea, fays, 

 he faw Serpents of incredible Magnitude, fome about 30 Cubits 

 long + 



We read of monflrous Dragons, particularly two Draconic 

 Monfters mentioned by Alexander s Ambafladois, feen by them 

 in their Return from the Kingdom of Abifaris, one of 80 Cubits 

 long, the other 140 ||. 



In Places adjacent to Batavia, a Dutch Settlement in the£^-. 

 Indies, we read of Serpents 50 Feet long ; and the Skin of one, 

 which was 20 Feet long, that fwallowed an Infant, is (liewn in 

 Batavia, the Metropolis of the Dutch Empire in the Eajl-Indies, 

 In America alfo are Serpents of prodigious Bulk, from 25 to 30 

 Feet long 4-; but this Subjecft will be further confidered in the 

 Second Part of this Book. 



On the other hand, there are Serpents, as remarkably little as 

 the Amphijbcena, Gallic Viper, and fome of the Lizards, that are 



not 



♦ Gefner-, p. 44. f JEVtan. 1. i5. c ^9 p. 957. % Mlian, lib. 17. 



cap, 1. !t Strabo^ de fiLU orbiS; lib. 15. Bi^tf^jpa ;t*<i« Bifari, alias Al>ifart R.egTO, 

 '4 Atlas American. 



