no A NATURAL HISTORY 



of hurt to Perfons, 'viz, that can endure a Httle Sound, arifing 

 from a Propagation of the Pulfe of the Air. 



An innocent Serpent, no Contradidion. There is good among 

 the bad in the moral World. 



yirtiie ■■ Jieeds ?io Defence -y 



^he fur eft Guard is Innocence: 

 None knew J till Guilt created Feur, 

 What Darts (i7id poifond Arrows were,. 

 Integrity imdaunted goes 

 ' ^hrd Lybian Sands^ mid Scythian Snows. 



In Paraguay j or La Plata in America^ is a famous white Bird^. 

 which, though it has a very fmall Body, has a Voice iike a Bell^ 

 and therefore the Natives call it Guirap'o, that is, the iSoufiding- 

 Bird. 



How many Animals of the fame kind in the moral Creation, 

 that wear gaudy Feathers and Plumes, whofe Sound, in the Af- 

 femblies of Saints and Sinners, proves to be 'vox & praterea 

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LIII. The Boicupecanga is a Serpent, fo called becaufe its 

 Back looks as if it were overgrown with Briers and Throns, the 

 Ridge being fliarp pointed, which makes the Bead: look as if he 

 were guarded by little- Spears : This prickle-back'd Serpent is of 

 a monftrous Extenfion, very frightful, and venemous, the very 

 fight of which ftrikes Terror into Man and Beafl. 



LIV. The Cucurijuba is a Water-Snake of twenty-five or 

 thirty Foot long, and three Foot in compafs, will fwallovv a Hog 

 or a Stag at once ; has Teeth like thofe of Dogs, but makes no 

 ufe of them as Inilruments of Mafticaiion. 



RylRRIS in the Atlas America, mentions one kill'd when 

 alleep, that was twelve Yards and a half long, and proportionably 

 big, in whofe Belly they found two wild Boars. This Creature 

 I take to be the Lyboya, (or a near Relative) a gigantick Serpent, 

 already defcribedj therefore I difmifs the Monfler, and proceed 

 to the 



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