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acquiesce in the propriety of the concluding epithet — 

 " King over all the children of pride." 



If space in these pages permitted, we should delight to 

 trace the transition, through the fierce Chehjdra of Florida, 

 from the Crocodiles to the Tortoises. But we must be 

 content with directing our readers' attention to the con- 

 trast which subsists between one of these latter, enclosed 

 as it is in an immoveable box of bone, with only an open- 

 ing in front at which to poke out its head and hands, and 

 a similar hole behind for its tail and hind limbs, waddling 

 along with painfully slow and heavy tread ; — the contrast, 

 we say, between such a creature and the lithe Snake, the 

 very type of flexibility, altogether destitute of limbs, yet 

 shooting along with an undulating velocity that the eye of 

 the gazer can scarcely follow. 



