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the pinion was soon seized with apparent stupor, 

 though it continued to walk; hut in ten minutes 

 it was unable to stand, and within a quarter of 

 an hour lay along the ground, as if asleep : in 

 twenty minutes it made several ineffectual efforts 

 to rise; was soon afterwards faintly convulsed, 

 and at the end of the half hour expired. 



A Geedi Para^oodoo which had been caught at 



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Caxcm Cot tali the day before, was made to bite a 

 large, stout dog on the thigh near the groin : it 

 held fast for more than twenty seconds; but the 

 fangs seemed to have penetrated no deeper than 

 the skin, there being barely the appearance of 

 blood ; and some of the poison was found about 

 the supposed place of puncture. The dog, when 

 first wounded, howled much, but on being set at 

 liberty, walked about without any symptoms of 

 poison : in ten minutes he drew up the wounded 

 thigh, still continuing on his legs : but in a quar- 

 ter of an hour he couched and howled, and the 

 thigh became more paralytic, though he was still 

 able to raise himself: in twenty-five minutes both 

 thighs were observed to be paralytic : in the course 

 of the second hour he grew manifestly disordered ; 

 became torpid, and lay panting on his side; and 

 at the end of the second hour expired, without 

 any remarkable appearance of convulsions. The 

 part bitten, being examined about four hours after 

 death, was observed to be scarcely swelled or dis- 

 coloured ; a circumstance different from what is 

 commonly observed in the bites or' other poisonous, 

 sen cuts. 



