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breaks, or rather disjojTits into several pieces ; and several in 

 these parts confidently affirm, that if they remain in the same 

 place imtouch'd, they will joyn together again. What harm 

 there may be in this brittle-ware, I cannot tell, for I never 

 knew any Person hurt by them. 



The King-snalx'G is the longest of all other Snakes in these 

 parts, but are not common; the Indians make Girdles and 

 Sashes of their Skins, and it is reported by them, that they 

 are not very venemous, and that no other Snake will meddle 

 with them, which I suppose is the Reason that they are so 

 fond of wearing their Skins about their Bodies as they do. 



The Corn-snahe, so called, from it's being met with in 

 Corn-fields, and scarce any where else. They are not vene- 

 mous, neither do they gather themselves into a Quoil like the 

 Viper or Rattle-snake. They are near a Yard long, and of 

 a Brown colour, mixt with TawTiv. 



The Green-snahes are very small, and are so called, from 

 their beautiful green Colour (if any Beauty may be allowed 

 to Snakes) the Planters make themselves very familiar with 

 them, and will frequently put them in their Bosoms, without 

 any dread or fear, because there is no manner of harm in 

 them. 



The Blach-truncheon-snahe might have very well been 

 numbered amongst the Water-snakes : they are so called, from 

 their shape, being the thickest and shortest kind of Snakes I 

 ever saw; they lie on the Banks, and at the Roots of Trees 

 by the Water sides, and when any thing disturbs them, they 

 dart themselves into the Salt-water like an Arrow out of a 

 Bow. Wliat good or harm there is in them T know not, some 

 of these Water-snakes will swallow a black-land Snake, half 

 as long again as themselves, as I observed in one of them that 

 T shot. 



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