fS VIPER. Class UL 



^V^_ Lohg and {lender bodies, covered with fcaly plates 



No ftct. 



SERPENT. 



12!. VipE'R. *^xi^. Arift, mfi. an. lib, in. tab. 28. 



c. I. Coluber Berus. Lin Jyjt. ^-jj . 



Vipera. Virg. Georg. iii. 417, Huggorm Faun. Suec. No. 



Pliniiy lib. X. c. 42. 286. C. Berus fcutis ab- 



Vipera. Gefner Serp. 71. dom. 146. fquamis caudas. 



Viper, or Adder. Rait Jyn. 39. Ihid. 



quad, 285. Borl. Corn. 282. Amcen^ Acad. I. 527. 



VIPERS are found in many parts of this ifland, 

 but the dry, ftony, and, in particular, the 

 chalky countries abound with them. They fwarni 

 in many of the Hebrides. 



They are viviparous, not but that they are hatch- 

 ed from- ari internal egg ; being of that clafs of 

 animals, of whofe generation Arifiotle * fays, 



Ey avT^xt; /*£v ^^otoxsi to thAejov aiov, Ho) de ^xorcy.sif i. e. They 



conceive a perfed egg within, but bring forth their 

 young alive. 



Providence is extrem.ely kind in making this fpe- 

 cies far from being prolific, we having never heard 

 of more than eleven eggs being found in one viper, 

 and thofe are as if chained together, and each about 

 the fize of a blackbird's egg. 



* De Gi;n. en. Lib. III. c. 2. 



two 



