74 A NATURAL HISTORY 



The biify Sun, and one would guefi 

 Bfs drunken fiery Face no lefs^ 

 Drinks up the Sea. ■ 



Fill up the Bowl then, Jill it high, 

 Fill all the Gl ajjes there, for why. 

 Should every Creature drink, but I ? 

 Why^ Man of Morals, tell me why ? * 



Soii^E of the Poets have thought this Amphisband to be the 

 Hydra Lernaa, the many-headed Serpent, that was very terrible 

 to the adjacent Country, and flain by Hercules : When one Head 

 was cut off, many others fprung up ; fo that there was no way to 

 deflroy the Monller, but by cutting off all the Heads with one 

 Stroke. 



T H o' there be no Amphisbanick Animals, there is feme Re- 

 femblance of it in Plants, whofe Cotyledon is always double, and 

 in the common Centre of the two, is a Point or Speck, which is 

 thePlantule, or the Tree in Embryo ; which Plantule being afted 

 on by the Earth, warmed by the Sun, begins to expand, and 

 fhoots its Root both upward and downward. Thus, in a Bean 

 committed to the Ground, we foon fee it to cleave into two 

 Parts, and in the Fiffure appears a little Speck, which fends out a 



Root downwards, and a Bud upwards. A remarkable Phseno- 



menon, fays the Note on Boerhaave% Theory. 



X. Am ON G Serpents, Authors place Z)r(2g-o«j ; Creatures ter- 

 rible and fierce in Afpedt and Nature. They are divided into 

 Apodes and Pedates, fome with Feet, and fome without them ;. 

 fome are privileged with Wings, and others are deftitute of Wings 

 and Feet : Some are covered with fharp Scales, which make a 

 bright Appearance in fome Pofition. Some have obferved, that 

 about the Ganges, are Dragons whofe Eyes fparkle like precious 

 Stones. 



They differ in external Form : The Draconopades are repre- 

 fented by a human Face, and fightly Countenance ; the reft of the- 

 Body in a tortuous winding Shape. In one of Dr. "Jnhnfon^ Fi- 

 gures, a Dragon is made to appear like a Man's Face, with a Gre- 

 nadier's Cap on the Head, Some differ in Colour, fome are 



black 

 • CoWe/s Anacreon. 



