26: BLIND-WORM. Clafs IIT 
The tongue is broad and forky; the teeth mi- 
nute, but numerous; the fcales fmall. 
The motion of this ferpent is flow, from which, 
and from the {mallnefs of the eyes, are derived its 
names. Like others of the genus, it lies torpid du- 
‘ying winter, and are fometimes found in vaft num- 
bers twifted together. 
- Like the former it is quite innocent. Doétor Bor- 
lafe mentions a variety of this ferpent with a pointed 
tail; and adds, that he was informed that a man loft 
his life by the bite of one in Oxfordfbire. We are 
inclined to think that his informant miftook the © 
black or dufky viper for this kind; for excepting 
the viper, we never could learn that there was any 
fort of poifonovs ferpent in thefe kingdoms, 
