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The Scarlet Snake is about five feet 

 in length, and as large as a mans thumb, 

 being all over of a lively fcarlet colour, 

 except the belly, where it is of a dull 

 red. The head is flat and wide, and the 

 tail (lender. It is an amphibious Snake, 

 and is frequently feen coiled upon the 

 branches of trees at the fides of rivers. 

 I was lately in a boat with a Gentleman 

 who fhot one of them in that pofture 

 through the middle, and it immediately 

 fell into the river ; but though one half 

 of its body hung to the other only by a 

 piece of fkin, it had neverthelefs the 

 audacity to endeavour to enter the boat 

 to revenge the injury, but was preven- 

 ted by the oars, as one half of its body 

 was become ufelefs. The bite of thefe 

 Snakes is efteemed fatal. 



The Fire Snake, as it is called, from 

 the fignification of its Indian name, is 

 near four feet in length, and about the 



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