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side of the stone, like the two halves of the axle of a 
wheelbarrow. The snake was about 15 inches lone, 
and was quite fixed in the stone, which was a flint. 
The reptile was thin in the middle and bigger at both 
ends on either side of the stone, and those who saw 
it consider that it must have crown for some time 
in this extraordinary position. The flint had to be 
broken in half before the snake could be released. 
T can only account for the reptile beme caught in 
this way by supposing that it attempted to get 
through the hole in the stone at a time when its 
stomach was bulemg from some food, that it was 
wedged in firmly where its girth was lareest, and 
bemeg unable to move either forwards or backwards, 
had so remained fixed. The organs on either side 
of the point of constriction would soon swell out 
and render all efforts at escape quite futile. 
Adder with two heads.—The Rev. Canon Bush, 
Duloe Rectory, Cormwall, has sent me a very interest- 
ing note on an adder killed in 1853 (or 1854) which 
had two heads. The adder was brought to him by a 
labourer, who had found it in a wood in the neigh- 
bouring parish of St Martin. The reptile was about a 
foot long, and was shaped like the letter Y, the two 
limbs of the Y representing the division of the reptile 
into two heads. My correspondent noticed that each 
head had mdependent action, and that when the adder 
opened one mouth the other mouth did not necessarily 
