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THE INDIAN BOA. 
PyrTuHon Tigris. Daun. 
THE Serpents form a division of the Reptile Class too 
well known by their elongated scaly bodies, and their 
total deprivation of external members, to require any 
minute description of their organization. They are also 
held by the generality of mankind in so much abhor- 
rence, end regarded for the most part with such strong 
feelings of unmitigated disgust, that we feel but little 
inclined to dwell upon their history, how much soever 
they may on many accounts be considered as deserving 
of a more extended notice. 
They are frequently divided into two great sections 5 
_ the one, which is by far the most numerous, compre- 
