BOAS, 



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And easily could he have overtopped 



Goliath's helmed head, or that huge king 



Of Basan, hugest of the Anakim : 



What then was human strength if once involved 



Within those dreadful coils ? . . . The multitude 



Fell prone and worshipped."* 



The Boad(je are found in the contments and 

 great islands of the torrid zone ; the true Boas, 

 distinguished by having the plates beneath the 

 tail arranged in a single series, are confined to 

 the western hemisphere, but the great Serpents 



BOA CONSTRICTOR. 



exhibited in our menageries, under the loosely- 

 applied term Boa constrictor, are for the most part 

 species of the genus Python, which is found oidy 



♦ 4i 



Madoc,'' book vii. 



