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Snake is commonly thought fatal, with 

 how much juftice I cannot determine. 

 They are frequently feen in the grafs, 

 but their motion is very torpid, and they 

 never move at the approach of any per- 

 fon. Whether Naturalifts have been 

 deceived concerning the other kinds of 

 Amphifocence, in different parts of the 

 world, from the appearance of their 

 tails, I am uncertain ; the fmallnefs of 

 this Snake renders the deception eary j 

 but in thofe kinds which are larger, it 

 feems almoft impoflible that every body 

 ihould miftake a tail for a head ; and 

 yet, except thefe, there is no animal in 

 nature, that is thought to have two 

 heads *. 



* Since thefe Sheets were fent to the Prefs, I 

 have received a particular Defcription of a mon- 

 ftrous Amphijbana^ found near Lake Champlain^ in 

 North America^ by an Officer in the American fer- 

 vice, who, with one of his Majefty's Draughts- 

 men, was, during the late War, fent to make 2 

 Survey of that Lake. They were previoufly in- 

 formed 



