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Gedi Para- 



GOODA. 



Cobra de Ca- 



TELLO. 



Katuka Re- 

 kux.a poda. 



HorattaPam. 



bungeram 

 Pamah. 



GA NOETIC HINDOOSTAN. 



There are not among all the fnakes of the traft my good 

 friend has examined, not any one that exceeds ten feet in 

 length, except the Pedda Poda, or rock fnakes, p. 30. tab. xxiv. 

 They are not venomous, nor are there any which may be called 

 fatal in the whole lift, five excepted. The Gedi Paragooda^ 

 tab. i. a fmall fpecies of Boa^ only two feet five inches 

 long*. This is more terrific, as its bite fails not of being 

 mortal. A dog flightly bitten by one died in lefs than two 

 hours, paralytic. 



Dogs bitten by the Cobra de Capello, the variety Comboo NiigOy 

 tab. vi. died in fpaces from twenty-feven minutes to five hours, 

 paralytic, or convulfed, or both. One was obferved to die 

 raging mad. At p. 197 of vol. i. are brought inftances of other 

 horrible fymptoms of the effedt of its bite. 



The Katuka Rekula Poda, tab. vii. is a Coluber, which will 

 kill a chicken in thirty-fix feconds ; a dog in twenty-fix mi- 

 nutes. The bite equally fatal with that of the Cobra de Capello. 

 The fymptoms, purging, a flux of blood from nofe and mouth, 

 and a ftupor. 



Horatta Pam is another mortal fnake found at Ami. 



Another Coluber, \.h.t Bodroo Pam, tab. ix. a beautiful green 

 fnake, has a venom fatal only to dogs or animals. 

 - As to the fixth and feventh inftances, in the fpecies Boa or 

 Bungeram, Pamah, tab. iii. which is faid by the natives to be 

 fatal, as was a Coluber, tab. iii. but Doctor Rujfel not having 

 opportunity of making experiments, declines deciding on the 

 effe(5t of their bite. 



See vol. i, p. 200. of the Ceylonefe Boa. 



Doctor 



