OF SERPENTS. 



Mice ; fucks Cows, upon which follows Blood. The Reader is 

 referred to a former. 



CXXVIII. The Marine-Dragoji^z.'^ Pliny calls it, or the true 

 Marine-Serpent^ in the Dialed: of Jonjienus, who, in his Defcrip- 

 tion of Fiflies, gives a particular account of it. We have already- 

 accounted for monftrous Serpents in the Indies, where fome have 

 Teeth in the form of a Saw, with which they do more hurt than 

 with their Poifon, fays the Greek Hiftorian *. 



I N Africa, are fome large and ftrong enough to contend with 

 Oxen by Land, and to overturn a three-oar'd Galley by Water; 

 which agrees in Charader with thofe of Norv)ay already defcribed: 

 There we found fome of 2CO Foot long, winding themfelves about 

 Ships, according to Olaus Magnus, Archbifhop of Upjal. 



I N- feveral of the Perfian IJlands are fome of twenty Cubits 

 long, and very terrifying to Sailors. Such alfo are {zQn in the 

 Promontory of Carmania, the Refidence of the Ichthyophagi, a 

 People that feed wholly upon Fifli ; a fine Country for fuch who 

 are inclin'd to keep a perpetual Lent. Tho' thefe Monfters are 

 born in the Deep, yet are they found in frefh Waters, and fome- 

 time {porting upon Land, where they lleep •\. 



The fame Author tells us, of a terrible Battle that happen'd 

 in 'Turkey, in the time of Bajazet, between the land and fnarine 

 Serpents, that continued from Morning to Night, when after a 

 great Deftrudlion on both lides, the Marines fled. Ibid. 



CXXIX. TfiE Rubetarian- Serpent is a very noify Animal, who 

 for its croaking Noife is refembled to a land Toad. It alfo engages 

 the Attention of the Eye, for it excels in Beauty : It's known among 

 Country-People by thefe two Charafterifticks, viz. Loud and 

 Pretty. Here we fee, v/hat is an Offence to the Ear may be a 

 pleafmg Entertainment to the Eye; thus the Five Senfes agree to 

 differ in their feveral Perceptions, and to meet in feveral diftinft 

 Apartments of the capital Temple, in the paciiick Empire. But 

 to return to the beautiful Padalica of the Polonians : 



It is faid of this Serpent, that when it wounds any in the 

 Foot, the Remedy is to put the wounded part into the next Earth, 



that 



* /E'iini H/'/?. lib. xvi. cap. -5. 



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