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i^uidied themfelves by their bravery and loyalty during the 

 civil wars between king Charles I. and his parliament. 



According to the parliamentary returns of 1811, Snaith 

 parifh includes eleven townthips, viz. Armin, Bain, Cowick, 

 Goole, Hick, Henfall, Hooke, Foilington, RawclifF, and 

 Snaith, which united contain 1133 houfes, and 509 J iiiha- 

 bitanti, of whom about 74:5 refide in the town of Snaith. 

 Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xvi. by John Big- 

 !and, 8vo. 1812. Carlifle's Topographical Diftionary of 

 England, 4to. 1R08. 



SNAKE, Anc.UIS, in the 'Lmnxa.n S^Jlcm 0/ Zoology, is 

 a genus of ferpents, the charafters of which are, that the 

 animals belonging to this genus have abdominal and fub- 

 caudal fcales. Here we may obferve, that Linnsus has 

 diftinguiflied the Imall fcales, with which the back and fides 

 of the animals belonging to the clafs of ferpents are covered, 

 by the name ai fquamx ; and the oblong, narrow, tranf- 

 verfe plates, with which the bellies of fome of them are 

 covered, by the denomination of j'cuta. Thofe that have 

 both fquamse and fcuta, he diftributes under the genus of 

 coluber ; thofe that have only fquamae, under the appellation 

 of anguis. In conformity to this diltribution, he has ranked 

 the common fnake, as well as the viper, &c. under the 

 ;fenus of coluber (which fee); and clalled fixtecn different 

 pecies, as the four-footed Javan fnake, the common flow- 

 worm, &c. under that of anguis. See Serpentes. 



Snake, ylnnulated. See Amphisbjena and Serpentes. 

 Snake, Argus. See Coluber Argus. 

 Snake, Aujlralafian. Sec Coluber Aujiralaftn. ' 

 Snake, Black. See Cohjber Conjlriaor. 

 Snake, Black and Red. See Coluber Torquatus. 

 Sn.\ke, Blood, Hitmorrhous, the name ot a peculiar 

 ipccies of ferpent, fo called, becaufe it was fuppofed, that 

 on a perfon's being bit by it, the blood flowed out of every 

 part of the body. 



It is a fmall lerpent, feldom arriving to more than a foot 

 long ; its eyes arc remarkably vivid, bright, and fparkhng ; 

 its (kin is very glofl'y, and its back variegated with a great 

 number of black and white Ipots ; its neck is very (lender ; 

 its tail extremely (harp, and it has a fort of fmall horns 

 placed over its eyes. It is found in Egypt. 



Tiiere is alfo an American kind of this, found in the 

 fouthcrn parts, and called by the natives ahucyatli, which is 

 larger tlian the otlier, and refejnbles the rattle-fnake in 

 many particulars, but wants the diilinguidiing character in 

 the tail. 



Snake, Boaform. See Coluber Bonformis. 

 Snake, Brajilian. See Coluber. 

 Snake, Bull-headed. See Coluber Bucephalus. 

 Snake, Coach-'whip. See Coluber Fhigellum. 

 Snake, Common, at Ringed, Coluber Nalrix of L,innxus. 

 See Na IRIX and Coluber Nalri.v. 



The following account of an eafy method of preferring 

 makes may not be unacceptable. When the fnake is killed, 

 it mult bi- wa(hed clean, and put into a glafs of a proper li/.e, 

 the tail tirft, and afterwards the reft of the body, winding it 

 in fpiral afcending circles, and difpofing the back, which is 

 always the moll beautiful, outwardly. A thread connefted 

 with a (mall bead is tlien, by a needle, to be palled through 

 the upper jaw from within outwardly, and then through the 

 cork of the bottle, where it nnift be faftened : by this means 

 the head will be drawn into a natural polture, and the mouth 

 kept open by the bead, by which the teeth, &c. will be dif- 

 covered. The glafs is then to be filled with rum, and the 

 cork fcaled down. In tiiis manner the fnake may be pre- 

 ferved for many years ; nor will the fpirits impair or change 

 the liiftre of its colour. 



Snake, Daboya. See Coluber. 



Snake, Hooded. See Coluber Naja. 



Snake, Homed. Sec Cerastes and Coluber Ct- 

 rajles. 



Snake, Ja-can. See Coluber ,/avanicus. 



Snake, Oak. See Dryinas and Crotalus. 



Snake, Panther. See Coluber. 



Snake, Rattle, a very dreadful genus of ferpents. See 

 Crotalus. 



Snake, Rujelian. See Coluber Rujfelli. 



Snake, Sand, the Engliih name of a kind of ferpent 

 found in Lybia, and fome parts of Italy. See Ammo- 



DYTES. 



Snake, Sea, Serpens Marinus, the name of a (ifh of the 

 eel-kind, being the cyhndric mureena (which fee), with the 

 tail naked and acute, ulually of five or fix feet in length, and 

 a furrowed body, continuing all the way of the fame thick- 

 nefs, till near the tail. Its back is of a duflcy yellow, and 

 its belly a (hining blue ; its fnout is long, (lender, and 

 pointed, and the opening of its mouth extremely large; 

 near the end of the under jaw it has four or live large (harp 

 teeth, which bend backwards ; the reft of the teeth are very 

 fmall, and ftand clofe together ; at the very extremity of 

 the upper jaw it has four very large teeth, and all the reft 

 are fmall, and like thofe in the under one; but the largcft 

 teeth of all are placed in a row, in the middle of the palate ; 

 it has only one pair of (ins, which are placed nc^r the gills ; 

 the opening of the gills is at a coniiderable diftance from 

 the head, and it is marked with dotted lines down its fides. 

 It is common in the Mediterranean, and its flefh is very fine 

 tailed, but full of fmall bones. Willughby, Hift. Pifc. 

 p. 108. 



Bifliop Pontopiddan mentions (in his Hift. of Norway, 

 vol. ii. p. 195, Sec.) a fea-fnake of a very prodigious fize ; 

 for the particulars of its dimenfions, &c. we mull refer to 

 the tellimonies which he has recorded. Thele animals, lome 

 of which are faid to be no lefs than fix hundred feet long, 

 are dangerous to navigators, as they throw themfelves over 

 vcffels of fome hundred tons burthen, and fink them to the 

 bottom by their weight. The prefervative againft them is 

 caller, the fmell of which they are faid to avoid. The 

 bilhop apprehends, that this creature, which inhabits the 

 North fea, is the leviathan mentioned in the fcripture. 

 Ilaiah, xxvii. i. Job, xxvi. 13. 



Snake, Sleep. See Hypnoticus Serpens. 



Snake, Spetlacle. Sec Cobras de Capello and Coluber. 



Snake, Triangular-headed. See Coluber. 



Snake-Gou»y/, in Botany. See Tricosanthes. 



Snake-/?»o/, Serpenlaria, the root of a fpecies of ariflo- 

 lochia. See ARlSTOLOflllA Serpenlaria. 



The ancients were only acquainted with two kinds of 

 ferpentaria, the grei-.t and the fmall : but fince the difcovcry 

 of America, botanills have added fcvcral others ; as the fer- 

 pentaria Virginians, or Virginian fnakc-root ; befides that of 

 Canada, and that of Brafil. 



They were fuppofed to be alexipharmics, or counter- 

 poifons ; and as fuch were ingredients in the Venice treacle. 



The herb dragon is alfo called, by fome writers, the gr<'at 

 ferpentaria ; by the ancients, dracunculus major. This hiM 

 its Hem very flraiglit, fmooth, and marked"with red fpots, 

 like the (kin of a ferpent ; whence, probably, as much as 

 from its virtues, it is that it takes its name. Its root is big, 

 round, and while, covered with a thin (kin. The Imallcr 

 ferpentaria, of this kind, has its ftalk mucli like that of thtf 

 larger, only ite loaves are like tliofe of ivy, whereas thofe of 

 the larger are dij^itatcd, after the manner of baftard helle- 

 bore. Its root IS round and bulbous. 



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