78 TheHifiory of Book I. 



Some who have broken up fenny places for Wells or recep- 

 tacles for water, have often met with a moft hideous kind of 

 Lizzards : They are in length about fix inches : the fkin of 

 their back is black, and befet with fmall grey fcales, which by 

 their extraordinary Alining, a man would think were oyl'd : 

 their bellies are alfo fcaly, as well as their backs, but the fkin 

 which covers it is of a pale yellow : their heads are fmall and 

 picked : their mouths are wide enough, and furnifiVd with fe- 

 veral teeth, which are extreamly {harp : they have two little 

 eyes, but not able to endure the light of the day, for asfbon 

 as they are taken out of the ground they immediately endea- 

 vour to make a hole in it with their pawes, which have each of 

 them five hard and crooked clawes, wherewith they break the 

 ground juftas the Moles do, andfo make their way whither 

 they pleale : they are very deftru&ive in Gardens, gnawing 

 the toots of Trees and Plants : their biting is alfo as venemous 

 as that of the moft dangerous Serpent; 



CHAP. XIV. 



Of the Inf eels commonly fee 11 in the Car&bics. 



NOt only the Heavens, and other vaft, and more excel- 

 lent parts of Nature declare the glor y of their Al- 

 mighty Maker 3 but even the leaft and moft defpica* 

 bleof his productions do alfo difcover the work of his hands, 

 and raife their minds who attentively confider them to a grace- 

 ful admiration of the greatnefs of his power, and an humble 

 acknowledgment of his Sovereignty : Out of a perfwafion 

 therefore that there are fome who delightfully fearchinto th? 

 (ecrets of Nature, and contemplate the wonders of God, who 

 out of his inexhauftible treamres hath endued the moft inconfi- 

 derable of his creatures with fb many rich ornaments, occult 

 qualities, and rare beauties, we (hall beftow this Chapter on 

 the consideration of certain Infefcrs commonly feen in thefe 

 fl lands, all which have fome peculiar properties, as fo many 

 beams of glory to raife them from their natural Jownels into 

 fome efteem. 



SNAILES. 



AMong the Infefts which abundantly fwarm in thefe hot 

 Countries there is a kind of SnaiJes, called by the French 

 Soldatt) that is Souldkrs, becaufe they have no (hells proper 

 a»d peculiar to themfelves, and make them not of their foam 



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