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pointing to a hill some miles distant, which I reached with great 

 difficulty, across a country covered with rocks, and my suspicions 

 were too well confirmed, when, after toiling for hours under a 

 burning sun, I entered on the top of the hill, a small square 

 pagoda filled with bells and peacock's feathers, such as I had 

 passed on the road every day. 



This mistake arose from my not knowing the Mahratta word 

 for CAVE TEMPLE, and therefore the impossibility of making the 

 simple-minded natives dream of what I was seeking with so much 

 labour and, in this case, useless toil and disappointment. 



I have since ascertained, beyond doubt, that these caves exist 

 where Captain Jacob pointed them out, to the left of the main 

 road mention being made of them in " Grant Duff's History of 

 the Mahrattas." 



On Snake-bites and their Antidotes, 

 By DR. BERNCASTLE. 



A few general remarks on the various Snakes of Australia 

 will, I presume, be interesting to those who are exposed to the 

 danger of them, and may also be a guide to the person bitten, as 

 to the urgency of the case, and necessity for more or less active 

 treatment. 



The Snakes of Australia may, for our purpose, be divided into 

 two distinct classes, the venomous and the non-venomous. The 

 venomous most often met with are here named and classed in the 

 order of their SUPPOSED virulence : 



The Deaf Adder. 



The brown-banded Snake with yellow belly. 



The brown Snake. 



The black Snake. 



