SALAMANDER.] NATURAL HISTORY. 



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in fire. And a certain kind of Salamander hath rough 

 skin and hairy, as the skin of the sea seal ; of the which 

 skin be sometime girdles made for the use of kings ; the 

 which girdles when they be full old be thrown into the 

 fire harmless, and without wem [blemish] purged, and as it 

 were renewed, and of that skin be tongues and bonds 

 [wicks] made in lamps and in lanterns that be never 

 corrupt with burning of fire. 



Bartholomew (Berthelet], bk. xviii. 92. 



IF he creepeth on a tree, he infecteth all the apples, and 

 slayeth them that eat thereof, and if he falleth into a pit, 

 he siayeth all that drink of the water. 



Ibid., bk. xviii. 9. 



THE Salamander naturally loveth milk, and therefore, 

 sometimes in the woods or near hedges, it sucketh a cow 

 that is laid, but afterwards that cow's udder or stock drieth 

 up, and never more yieldeth any milk. It is not bred of 

 the fire as crickets are. 



TopscII, " History of Serpents," pp. 747-8. 



