thofe that are moft common; where frequent repeated 
DiJfeBions might fully inform us of iV^^ar^J- admirable con- 
irivance,and Mechamfm of minimal Bodies. 
This which We DijJeBed was fent to Mr. Henry Loades ^ 
a Merchant in London ^ from Virginia -^vf\io was pleafed not 
only to gratify the curiofity of the ^Society in (hewing 
it them alive , but likewife gave it them when dead, and 
-fb afforded them an opportunity of farther fatisfadiion 
in obferving the inrvard parts of it ; which I find fo confor- 
mable in almoft all refpefts to thofe oH Viper ^ that I have 
taken the liberty of placing it in that ClajSe» and (fince 
it has not yet, that I know of, any Latine Name)of give- 
ingit that of Vtpera Caudifona; for as I am informed by 
Merchants, * m Viviparous > and the Epithet fuflSciently 
differences it from thofe that have no Kettle , although of 
thefe too there ought to be made aSubdivifion. But I 
fball concern my felf at prefent only with the Anatomy » 
which I think isyet given hy None \ thoto me it feems 
the moft principal part in a Natural Hifiory of Animals : 
and for other Accounts I fliall refer to Georg, Marcgravim» 
GuL Fifo i Johnfion , Nierembergius » Joan, de Laet^ Fran, 
Hernandc^y and others that have wrot of it > who de- 
fer ibe it under the Names of Boi^iningai or Boi^imninga, 
and Boiquira^ which are the Brafde Names. By the Portu^ 
gues's 'tis called Cafcavela and Tangador ; by the Dutch^ 
J^'eteUSchlange ; by thofe of Mexico , Teutlacocauhqui , or 
Teuhtlacot ^auhqui^ (ut.^ Domina Serpentum , and from its 
fivift motion on the I{pcks like the Wind, HoacoatL 
But as to our Bujinefs ^ before we look within we (hall 
take a fliort furvey of its outv^ard parts. This therefore 
that we differed was 4 foot 5 Inches long 5 the girth of 
the Body in the largeftplace> which was the midale^ was 
6 i Inches ; the girth about the -ZVip^/^^ 5 inches ; near the 
^ttle 2 inches 5 the Head flat on the top as is the Viper^ 
and by the protuberance of the M^:v^7/^ fbmewhat re- 
prefenting the htdidoidi bearded arrowy at the extremity 
of it were the iV<?/?ri^/j T between them add -the Eyes ^ ■\rAbiSig'i.^ 
but 
