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thofe of Tibet. When the Bladder under the Belly is taken out, 

 they feparate the congeal'd Blood, and dry it in the Sun. 



S I R John Chardin * fays, Mmk is alfo produced in Perfia from 

 an Impoftume in the Body of a Beaft, that refembles a Goat, and 

 grows near the Navel, and is better than that of China. The 

 Scent of it, adds he, is fo ftrong, that it many times kills thofe 

 who hunt the Beaft, when they firft open the Bag, except they 

 ftop their Mouths and Nofes with Linnen : 'Tis eafily counter- 

 feited, and the beft way to try it, is by drawing a Thread, dipt 

 in the Juice of Garlick, thro' the Bag with a Needle j and if the 

 Garlick lofes its Scent, the Mulk is good, Atl. 397. 



LXXV. The Boitiapo (that fhould have been mention'd be- 

 fore with its Brazilian Relatives) is a large Serpent, about feven 

 Foot long, not quite fo thick as a Man's Arm, of an olive Colour, 

 yellow Belly, in Body round, eloath'd with Scales that make an 

 elegant Appearance in a fort of triangular form. 'Tis very ve- 

 nemous, and its Wounds not curable without timely and proper 

 Applications. 



The Lacertan Snakes or Lizards come next under Confidera- 

 tion, and in the fame order as laid down by the learned Mr, 

 Ray-]-. Previous to that, I beg leave to obferve, that Mcfei places 

 two ibrts oi Lizards among unclean Creatures, the Stellio and La- 

 ceria. Thefe Lizards differ vaftly in Bulk j, fome a Finger's 

 length ; in Arabia, fome of a Cubit long ; in the Indies, twenty- 

 four Feet in length. Several forts of Lizards arc mention'd in 

 Scripture, L^i;. xi. 30. the two former are tranflated Stellio and 

 Lacerta; the third is tranflated a Mole, but Bochart maintains, it 

 is a Camekon ; the fourth is defcrib'd Prov. xxx. 28. and there^. 

 Spider is render'd Stellio, a Lizard. Mr. Ray begins with 



LXXVL The Crocodile, the largeft of the Lacertan Race, a; 

 Name which is fuppofed to come from a word J that fignifies 

 afraid of Sajron, becaufe this Creature abhor&the Smell oi Saffron, 

 as a learned Author obferves ||i. It is an amphibious Beaft, noi- 

 fome and voracious, and one of the Wonders of Nature ; for, 

 from an Egg no bigger than that of a Goofe, proceeds an Animal 

 •which increafes to eight or ten Yards in length. 



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* Ws Travels. f Synopjis Ammal de Lacertis, 



J 'K.poKoZtM'i liihk' Crtscii timidus. |[ Caimet. 



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