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black in the upper Part of the Body, according to Philofiratus j 

 red, according to Homer-, yellow, according to Paufanias -, and 

 Lucan makes it a golden Colour *. 



The fame Hiftorian obferves, that in the Atlantick Moun- 

 tains, they kill where they touch, and thofe that are in the King- 

 dom of Narfinga^ and dwell in the Woods, kill all they meet. 

 Ibid. f. 



I Presume, the Author means Narfinga, a potent King- 

 dom, bounded on the Eaft with the Bay of Bengal, that noble 

 Part of India, fays Herbert ^-^ where the Monarch is always at- 

 tended with 1000 for his Guards, has 5 or 6000 Jefters, and rec- 

 kons it one of his chief Titles to be the Hulband of a Thoufand 

 Wives. 



Dragons are Inhabitants of Africa and AJia-, thofe of 

 India exceed moll in Largenefs ^nd Longitude : In the Tower of 

 London, is the Skin of one, which is of vaft Bulk. In Mthio^ 

 pia, they have no Name for Dragons, but Killers of Elephants, 

 which is fuppofed to be the largeft of Land-Animals. 



OvE R the Water-gate in the City of Rhodes, there is fet up 

 the Head of a Z)r^^o;7, which was 33 Foot long, that wafted all 

 the Country, till it was flain by Deodate de Gozon, one of the 

 Knights of St. John Baptiji \\. The Knights of that Order had 

 frequently attack'd it, but in vain 5 for its Scales being proof a- 

 gainft all their Arms, it deftroyed fo many of them, that the 

 Grand Maftcr forbad them to engage the Monfter any more. 



GOZON, who, after feveral dangerous Onfets efcaped with 

 his Life, refolvcd to make another Trial by Stratagem ; perceiv- 

 ing it was no where vulnerable but in the Eyes and Belly, con- 

 trived the Refemblance of a Dragon by a Machine of Paftboard, 

 of equal Bulk with the Dragon, and by certain Springs made it 

 leap like a true Dragon : Having trained up a Couple of fierce 

 J)ogs to attack it at the Belly, he went out privately one Morning, 

 well-armed on a managed Horfe with his Dogs, and rode up to the 



L 2 Den, 



* Vhiloftratus de Vita Apol. lib. iii. cap. 2. Homer. Iliad, lib. 12. Lucan. Fharfal. 

 ip Jonjioni Hijioria SerpentnM, />• 33, 34. 



•f- TJude quidam in arhores ^ chamt dracenes diflinxere. 



X His Travels mto Africa and A Ji a, the famous Empires o( Perf a and Inda- 

 Jian, — Oriental lilands. 



jl Atlas Geog. Anatolia^ p. 4. 3 ,"4- from Tavernier and JD« Mont^ 



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