GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



as the Flora. He delineates in natural colors xliii fpecies. 

 Their marks are varied in the raoft exqnifite and aftoniQiing 

 manner, which demonftrate invention paft the human. But 

 none emulate in teints and grace the ferpent, the caufe of the 

 primaeval fall of man. None come up to that created by the 

 fublime fancy of our Milton, when he defcribes its eventful 

 approach towards our common mother. 



Not with indented wave 

 Prone on the ground, as lince, but on his rear. 

 Circular bafe of rifing folds, that tower'd 

 Fold above fold a furging maze, his head 

 Crefted aloft, and carbuncle his eye. 

 With burnilh'd neck of verdant gold eredt 

 Amidft his circling fpires, that on the grafs 

 Floated redundant j plealing was his fhape 

 And lovely, never fince of -Serpent kind 

 Lovelier. 



The mortal fnakes of Hindoojlan fliew dim in refpedl to 

 colors, in comparifon of the felon which ftole into Eden. Some 

 are held by the Hindoos in the higheft veneration. The Adye- 

 chan, perhaps the Boa, is made the couch of VicbenoUi coiled 

 in an oblong form, with the heads, for it has five, reared over 

 that of the deity, who lies extended afleep on this ftrange bed 

 floating on the fea. This and the Calingan, the CoOra de Capello, 

 another moft venomous fnake, are the frequent attendants of 

 the brain-lick deities of the country. 



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