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but they are apt to difturb hen roofls and prey 
upon chickens. They are as innocent as a worm 
with refpect to venom, are eafily tamed and fooii 
become very familiar. 
The pine or bull fnake is very large and inoffen- 
five with refpect to mankind, but devours fquirrels, 
birds, rabbits, and every other creature it can 
take as food. They are the large!! fnake yet known 
in North America, except the rattle fnake, and per- 
haps exceed him in length : they are pied black and 
white : they utter a terrible loud hiffing nolfe, 
founding very hollow and like diftant thunder, when 
irritated, or at the time of incubation, when the 
males contend with each other for the defired fe- 
male. Thefe ferpents are alfo called horn makes, 
from their tail terminating with a hard, horny fpur, 
which they vibrate very quick when difturbed, but 
they never attempt to ftrike with it ; they have 
dens in the earth, whither they retreat precipitately 
when apprehenfive of danger. 
There are many other fpecies of makes in the 
regions of Florida and Carolina ; as the water 
fnake, black fnake, garter fnake, copper belly, ring 
neck, and two or three varieties of vipers, befides 
thofe already noticed in my journal. Since 1 have 
begun to mention the animals of thefe regions, this 
may be a proper place to enumerate the other tribes 
which I obferved during my perigrinations. I mall 
begin with the frogs (ranae.) 
( i ) The largeft frog known in Florida and on 
the fea coafl of Carolina, is about eight or nine 
inches in length from the nofe to the extremity of 
the toes : they are of a duiky brown or black co- 
lour on the upper fide 3 and their belly or under fide 
white 
