Z6 VIPER. Class III. 



,*Y.* Long and flender bodies, covered with fcaly plates 

 SERPENT. ^ T *? ' J * 



No feet. 



12. Viper. "E%js. Ariji. Hifi, an. Mb. iii- tab. 28. 



c. 1. Coluber Berus. Lin fyfi. 377. 



Vipera. Virg. Georg. iii. 417. Huggorm Faun. Suec. No. 



Plinii, lib. x. c. 42. 286. C. Berus fcutis ab- 



Vipera. Gefner Serp. 71. dom. 146. fquamis caudse. 



Viper, or Adder. ^*w7 Jyn. 39. /W. 



^W. 285. Borl. Corn. 282. Amcen. Acad. I, 527. 



VIPERS are found in many parts of this ifiand, 

 but the dry, ftony, and, in particular, the 

 chalky countries abound with them. They fwarm 

 in many of the Hebrides. 



They are viviparous, not but that they are hatch- 

 ed from an internal egg \ being of that clafs of 

 animals, of whofe generation Ariftotle* fays, 



Ev CtVTQl$ flEV &0OTOXEI TO T&MOV OJOV, E^CO 3s %<t)QT0KH f I- e. They 



conceive a perfect egg within, but bring forth their 

 young alive. 



Providence is extremely kind in making this fpe- 

 cies far from being prolific, we having never heard 

 of more than eleven eggs being found in one viper, 

 and thofe are as if chained together, and each about 

 the fize of a blackbird's egg. 



» De Gen. an. Lib. III. f. 2. 



two 



