vcring theCe iecrct* auidl tl^ ifcft v l^i?^ 
bm omnia conveniunt* 
The indke of which there are infinite 
numbers of various colours, fome black, 
others painted with red^ yellow and white^ 
fomeagiinof agrafs-grcen colpur powdc* 
fed all over as ic were with filver duft oi 
Mufcevie-gUfs. But there is one fort that 
exceeds all the reft, and that is the Checfe^ 
quercd fnak^jhaving as many colours with- 
in the chcckquers (haddowing one another, 
there arc in a Rainbow. There are two 
forts of fnakes, the land-fnake arid the wa- 
ter- friake > the water- fiiake will be aS big 
afbout the belly as the Calf of a maris leg 5 
I never heard of any mifchief that fnakcs 
did, they kill them fbmetimes for^ their 
skins and bones to make hatbands (heijF 
skins likewife worn as a Gayter is an excel- 
lent rcmedie againft the cramp. I have 
found of the skins that they caft in woods 
in fome quantity , they caft not their very: 
sKins, but only the Superfluous thin skin 
that is upon the very skin, for the very skia 
is bafted to the flefti, fo Lobfters and Crabsa 
The Earth-worm , thcfe are very rare 
and as finail as a, horfc hair, but there is a 
Bug that lyes in the earth and eatieth the: 
feed, that is fomewhat like a Maggot of ai 
white colour with a red head, and is abbiir 
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