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Mice ; fucks Cows, upon which follows Blood. The Reader is 

 referred to a former. 



CXX VIII. The Marine-Dragon, as Tliny calls it, or the true 

 Marine'Serpent^ in the Dialed: of 'Jonflonus^ who, in his Defer ip- 

 tion of Fillies, gives a particular account of it. We have already- 

 accounted for monftrous Serpents in the Indies^ where fome have 

 Teeth in the form of a Saw, with which they do more hurt than 

 with their Poifon, fays the Greek Hiftorian *. 



I N Africa^ are fome large and ftrong enough to contend with 

 Oxen by Land, and to overturn a three-oar'd Galley by Water ; 

 which agrees in Chara<5ler with thofe of Norway already defcribed : 

 There we found fome of 200 Foot long, winding themfelves about 

 Ships, according to Olaus Magnus^ Archbifhop of Upfal. 



1 N feveral of the Perfiafi IJlands are fome of twenty Cubitsr 

 long, and very terrifying to Sailors. Such alfo are feen in the 

 promontory of Cmmania^ the Refidence of the Ichthyophagt^ a 

 People that feed wholly upon Fidi ; a fine Country for fuch who 

 are inclin'd to keep a perpetual Lent, Tho' thefe Monflers are 

 born in the Deep, yet are they found in frefh Waters, and fome- 

 time fporting upon Land, where they fleep -f-. 



The fame Author tells us, of a terrible Battle that happen'd 

 in Turkey^ in the time of Bajazet, between the la?2d and marine 

 Serpents^ that continued from Morning to Night, when after a 

 great Deftrudion on both fides, the Marines fled. Ibid. 



CXXIX. The Rubetariafi- Serpent is a very noify Animal, who 

 for its crocking Noife is refembled to a land Toad. It alfo engages 

 the Attention of the Eye, for it excels in Beauty : It's known among 

 Country-People by thcfe two Chai after ifticks, viz. Loud and 

 Pretty. Here we fee, what ie an Offence to the Ear may be a 

 pleafing Entertainment to the Eve ; thus the Five Senfes agree to 

 differ in their feveral Perceptions, and to meet in feveral diflindt 

 Apartments of the capi^al Temple, in the pacifick Empire. But 

 to return to the beautiful Padalica of the Polcmans: 



It is faid of this Serpent, that when it wounds any in the 

 Foot, the Remedy is to put the wounded part into the next Earthy 



thai 



* JEliani Hifl. lib. xvi. cap. 7.. 



t Jovfio?i.de Pifcib. p. 9. Arcicuius y. 



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