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able, ii. 46. Of all senses man is most inferior to other 

 animals in that of smelling; and it seems not to offend 

 them, 47. The grossest, and most useful of all, is that 

 of feeling, 51. 



Sensitive plant has as much perception as the fresh-water 

 polypus, i. 349. 



Seps, improper name of the Chalcidian lizard, the last divi- 

 sion of that kind ; description of this animal, v. 322. Its 

 bite very venemous, 370. 



Serpents, the sea about the islands of Azores replenished with 

 them for want of motion, i. 207. Their various hissings at 

 the close of evening, make a louder symphony in Africa 

 than birds in European groves in a morning, ii. 160. The 

 natural food of the ichneumon, iii. 91. The only animal 

 in the forest that opposes the monkey : surprising them 

 sleeping, swallows them whole, before they have time for 

 defence : monkeys inhabit the tops of trees, and serpents 

 cling to branches toward the bottom : thus near each other, 

 as enemies in the same field of battle : this vicinity thought 

 to argue a friendship : monkeys provoke the serpents by 

 jumping over them, 305. Sea-serpent, the elops described, 

 v. 123. Histories of antiquity exhibit a nation sinking 

 under the ravages of a serpent, 326. Regulus leading his 

 army along the banks of the river Bagrada, in Africa, an 

 enormous serpent disputed the passage : its skin was a 

 hundred and twenty feet long : marks distinguishing them 

 from the rest of animals : their conformation, and progres- 

 sive motion : encounter of a great serpent with a buffalo : 

 entwines and devours the buffalo : long serpent of Congo : 

 some bring their young alive, some bring forth eggs : some 

 venomous, and some inoffensive : animals which destroy 

 them : boasted pretensions of charming serpents : have do- 

 cility : Egyptians paid adoration to a serpent, and inhabi- 

 tants of the western coast of Africa retain the same venera- 

 tion : all amphibious : their motion in swimming : excrements 

 of some kept as a perfume in India : the Esculapian serpent : 

 little serpent at the Cape of Good Hope, and north of the 

 river Senegal : the prince of serpents a native of Japan, 

 the greatest favourite of savages, and has not its equal for 

 beauty : seat of poison in venomous serpents ; instrument 

 by which the wound is made : those destitute of fangs are 

 harmless: various appearances the venom produce: may be 

 taken inwardly without sensible effects or prejudice to the 

 constitution : instance of it : of the force of serpents' poison, 

 by Ray : no animals bear abstinence so long : their powers 

 of digestion but feeble : their principal food birds, moles, 

 toads, lizards : little serpents live for several years in glasses, 

 never eat at all, nor stain the glass with excrements, v, 

 337, &c. 



