140 A NATURAL HISTORY 



Wound from a little feeble Archer. For 'tis Satisfadion to the 

 Vanquifh^d to die by the Hand of heroic Valour j hence that of 

 Virgil; 



Mnece Magni dextra cadis. .... 



'7/'j by the Great Eneas' Hand you fall. 



The reafon was, becaufe the Lacedemonians were wont to fight 

 with Swords, therefore it was not counted Bravery to kill Men 

 with a Dart, a thing that may be done by any Woman. 



So in the vegetable World, there are Cedars and Shrubs. lii 

 Natural Philofophy, we read of Atoms^ that are Minima Naturcdy 

 the ultimate Particles into which Matter is divilible, and are 

 conceived as the firft Rudiments, or component Parts of all phy- 

 iical Magnitude, or the pre-exiftent and incomprehenfible Mat- 

 ter, whereof particular Bodies were formed 5 there are Mountains 

 and Mole-Hills. 



So . . . . there was Alexander the Great ^ and there is Alexander 

 the Little, the ingenious and learned Mr. Pope j the one con- 

 quered by the Sword, the other by his Pen, and has made all the 

 Regions of Fame tributary to him. 



CXXl V. The tame and tradable Serpent, is of the Indian 

 Race, about an Inch long, when brought iirft from the Field 

 for domeftick Education ; and when at its full Growth, is not 

 much fhort of a Man's Thigh. Its Habitation is in fome little 

 Hutch ereded on purpofe, [indulgent ice gratia) where it idles 

 away its time, till Hunger brings it out. Upon its Approach to 

 the Mafter of the Houfe, it creeps up to his Shoulders, where 

 the Embraces of that terrible Creature (being made tame) are re- 

 ceived with Delight *. 



CXXV. T HE T^leoa, or Tetha, that is, a little fiery Serpent, and 

 very common in the new World, and defcribed by the Hiftorian 

 thus-f-, viz. 'Tis about a Finger broad, and five or lix Foot long, 

 and differenced from others by a Medley of Spots, compounded 

 o£ white, black, yjellow, and dun Colours. The Head is like 



that 



* NteremhergiiiSy cap. xl. p. 283. — Humeros heri amice ccnrGcndunr? benevole. 

 terrifici animalis araplexus tolcrancis. 

 f. NicremberiJHS) from Franeijcus Her?ia?jduf 



