REPTILES AND SNAKE-STONES. 



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referred to these amulets, and proceed to matters 

 of fact rather than of poetry and romance, con- 

 cluding this chapter with a copy of the figures 

 of c snake-stones ' given by Pennant in his 

 " British Zoology," and who says of them : "Our 

 modern Druidesses seem not to have so exalted 

 an opinion of their powers, using them only to 

 assist children in cutting their teeth, or to cure 

 the chincough or to drive away an ague." 



ADDEK- STONES. 



