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232 Scaly. ^^. 7.ooL III. 13. 



LIZARD. 



III. 13. 



Er. Jac-Iu-achu-rach. 



233 Brown. Br. Zool III. 16. 



Er. Duirk-luachair, i. e. obfervcr of the ruflies; 



SERPENT. 



234 Viper. Br. Zool. III. 



Er. 



nPHE black viper is very common in the 

 highlands : numbers of vipers in Hay., 

 Jura., and <fkie. In fome of the ifles it is 

 ftill believed that they fting with their 

 tongues, and do not convey the poifon with 

 the teeth : that the venom dropt on a fword 

 will caufe it to hifs like water on hot iron % 

 and that a poultice of human ordure is a 

 fovereign remedy for the bite. No fpecies 

 of ferpent in Lewis., or any part of the long 

 ifland. 



^35 Aberdeen Anguis Eryx. Lin.fyJ}. 392. Tour Scotland, Appendix. 



LENGTH fifteen inches : tongue broad 

 and forked : noflrlls fmall, round and 

 placed near the tip of the nofe : eyes lodged 



in 



