no A NATURAL HISTORY 



of hurt to Perfons, %nz. that can endure a Uttle Sound, arifing 

 from a Propagation of the Pulfe of the Air. 



An innocent Serpent, no Contradidion. There is good among 

 the bad in the moral World. 



. Virtue- ^eeds no Defence ; 



The fur eft Guard is Innocence : 

 . None kneiv, till Guilt created Fear, 

 What Darts and poifon'd Arrows were. 

 Integrity undaunted goes 

 Thro' Lybian Sands, and Scythian Snows. 



In Paraguay, ov La Plata in America, is a famous white Bird, 

 ' which, though it has a very fmall Body, has a Voice like a Bell, 

 and therefore the Natives call it Guirapo, that is, the Sounding- 

 iBird. 



How many Animals of the fame kind in the moral Creation, 

 that wear gaudy Feathers and Plumes, whofe Sound, in the Af- 

 femblies of Saints and Sinners, proves toi)e vox Gf frceterea 

 I nihil. 



LIII. The Boicupecanga is a Serpent, fo called becaufe its 

 Back looks as if it were overgrown with Briers and Thorns, the 

 Ridge being fharp pointed, which makes the Beaft look as if he 

 were guarded' by little Spears : This prickle-back'd Serpent is of 

 a monftrous Extenfion, very frightful, and venemous, the very 

 fight of which, ftrikes Terror into Man and Beaft. 



LIV. Thie Cucurijuba Is a Water-Snake of twenty-five or 

 thirty Foot long, and three Foot in Compafs, will fwallow a Hog 

 or a Stag at once; has Teeth like thofe of Dogs, but makes no 

 ufe of them as Inftruments of Maftication. 



HARRIS in the Atlas America, mentions one kill'd when 

 afleep, that was twelve Yards and a half long, and proporrionably 

 big, in whofe Belly they found two wild Boars. This Creature 

 I take to be the Lyioya, (or a near Relative) a gigantick Serpent, 

 already defcribed, therefore I difmifs the Monfter, and proceed 

 to the 



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