300 



RATTLE-SNAKE. 



Weights of the Table of the relative zveisjus of the ultimate particles of aafeous 



particles of ^ j .1 i r 



\,oi\iQS, (^"■d' other bodies. 



Hydrogen - .----- 1 



Azote ..._..- 4.2 



Carbon 4.3 



Ammonia --.-.-•. 5.2 



Oxygen _______ 5,5 



Water 6.3 



Pliolphorus 7.2 



Phofpliuretted hydrogen _ _ - - S.2 



Nitrous gas - - - - - - 9.3 



Ether 9.6 



Gafeous oxide of carbon _ . _ - 9,8 



Nitrous oxide - - - - - 13.7 



Sulphur - - - - - - - 14.4 



Nitric acid - - 15.2 



Sulphuretted hydrogen - - - - 15.4 



Carbonic acid ---_-_ 15.3 



Alcohol - 15.1 



Sulphureous acid ------ 19,9 



Sulphuric acid ------ 25.4 



Carburelted hydrogen from fiagnated water 6.3 



defiant sas ------- 5,3 



VT. 



On the fiippofed fafcinating Power of the Rattlc-fnake. With a 

 remarkable Indian Tradition upon xihich it is probable tlhe 

 early European Settlers founded their popular Tales. From 

 the Philadelphia Medical and Phr/fical Journal, by Benj amin 



• Smith Barton, M. D. 



Fafcinating 

 power of the 

 rattle -fnake 

 defer) bed by 

 Fabricius. 



jT^LMOST all amphibious animals (fays ProfelTbr Fabricius,) 

 the tortoife excepted, live by preying upon other animals. 

 Bat being deftitute of llrength and fwiftnefs, nature has 

 given, at leaft to fome of them (according to the teftimony of 

 many and creditable writers,) the peculiar faculty of forcing 

 other animals to throw themfelves into their open jaws. Kalm, 

 the Swede, and the American Smith Barton, affert of the 



American 



