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CHAPTER XXVII. 
VUI. TRENT PROVINCE. 
53, SoutH LINcoLn. 55. LeicestTER WItH RUTLAND. 
54. NortH LINcoun. 56. NovrincHamM. 
57. DERBY. 
Lincolnshire. 
“Jn this county both the adder and the ring snake 
are found, but in different kinds of places. The ring 
snake is the more common on the damp heaths and 
peaty eround, while the adder frequents the igh dry 
heaths and woodlands. I have measured very few 
adders, but the ring snake averages from 2 feet 6 
inches to 5 feet 5 inches. My erandfather, Edward 
Shaw Peacock, of Bottesford Moors, who died in 1861, 
was an accurate man, and a good naturalist for his 
day. He left some MS. notes, from which the fol- 
lowing extracts are taken. The words in brackets are 
mine. 
“*When Thos. Lloekwood] first began to warp 
Nathanland [a well-known stretch of the common, 
