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Doctor Rujfel, in his appendix, hath given relations of the 

 various effeils which the unhappy fufferers by the bites of fer- 

 pents have experienced ; fome of which have recovered, and 

 others not. A violent pain and intenfe burning along the 

 bitten arm, was felt by a man bitten by a fmall brown fnake, 

 called Fifiyen Pambu. On application of remedies, he was re- 

 ftored to his health. 



At Rajamundra two foldiers were bitten by a fmall fnake Others. 

 fcarcely fix inches long, and not thicker than a large goofe quill, 

 of a dark ilone color. , Its very fmall eyes fhone like diamonds ; 

 the trunk nearly of equal thicknefs from head to tail. It did 

 not creep, but fprung forward a foot at left at a time. The 

 effeil of the bite w-as lofs of fight, a fleepinefs that nothing 

 could prevent, and a deep ftupor which ended in death. Pu- 

 trefa6lion fucceeded in four hours ; Communicated by Captain 

 Gowdie. 



Two inftances are adduced, at p. 81, of a fmall fnake which 

 killed with the rapidity of the Jaculiis of Lucan. It is found 

 2itBombayy and alfo near Madras, where the Portuguefe call it 

 Cobra de Morte. It is only from fix to nine inches long. It Cobra de 

 has on its head the marks of a fcull, and two crofs bones, per- 

 haps imaginary. M. Bourcbier, a gentleman refident at Bombay 

 and Madras, adduces the inftances. One was of his father's porter, 

 3 ftout Arab, who could only fhriek, " A fnake has bit me ! " 

 The other of a Hindoo lad, who expired with a cry in the man- 

 ner of the preceding. In my firft volume, p. loi. 200. I have 

 given two proofs of two fpecies of fmall ferpents found near 



Bambayy 



