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devoured by it. Its supposed antipathy to snakes is thus 

 referred to by an ancient Scottish poet : — 



The Cygonie that foul so whyte 

 Quhilk at the serpents hes despyte 

 Come graiien to the ground. i 



1 Burel's P'dg., Watson's Coll., ii. 27.— From Jamieson's Scot. Did. 



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