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A NATURAL HISTORY 



^e bufy Sun, and one would guefs '' 



Bfs drunken fiery Face no lefsy 



Drinks up the Sea.- ■■ ■ 



Fill up the Bowl then, Jill it high. 



Fill all the GlaJJ'es there, for why. 



Should every Creature drink, but I f 



Why, Man of Morals, tell me why f * 



Some of the Poets have thought this Amphisbana to be the 

 Hydra Lernaa, the many-headed Serpent, that was very terrible 

 to the adjacent Country, and flain by Hercules : When one Head 

 was cut off, many others fprung up; fo that there was no way to 

 deftroy the Monfter, but by cutting off all the Heads with one 

 Stroke. 



T H o' there be no Amphisbanick Animals, there Is fome Re- 

 femblance of it in Plants, whofe Cotyledon is always double, and 

 in the common Centre of the two, is a Point or Speck, which is 

 the Plantule, or the Tree in Embryo ; which Plantule being aded 

 on by the Earth, warmed by the Sun, begins to expand, and 

 ihoots its Root both upward and downward. Thus, in a Bean 

 'Committed to the Ground, we foon fee it to cleave into two 

 Parts, and in the Fiffure appears a little Speck, which fends out a 

 Root downward?, and a Bud upwards.— -A remarkable Phaeno- 

 menon, fays the Note on Boerhaaves Theory. 



X. Among Serpents, Authors place Dragons; Creatures ter- 

 rible and fierce in Afped: and Nature. They are divided into 

 Apodes and Pedates, fome with Feet, and fome without them -, 

 fome are privileged with Wings, and others are deffitute of Wings 

 and Feet: Some are covered with (harp Scdes, which make a 

 bright Appearance in fome Pofition. Some have obferved, that 

 about the Ganges, are Dragons whofe Eyes fparkle like precious 

 Stones. 



They differ in external Form : The Draconopades are repre- 

 fented by a human Face, and fightly Countenance; the reft of the 

 Body in a tortuous winding Shape. In one of Dr. yohnjbn's Fi- 

 gures, a Dragon is made to appear like a Man's Face, with a Gre- 

 nadier's Cap on the Head. Some differ in Colour, fome are 



black 



* Covj/e/s Anacrcon. 



