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it had been poffible for the Skin to contain, and very 
Ihitfty. She gave him Oriental Bezifar (haved, with a 
(Ircng Decodion of the aforefaid Dittany, whereby Ihe 
recovered the Perfon : To the beft of my Remembrance, 
it was he that told mc, asking him afterwards, what he 
felt when the Snake firft bit him? He faid, it fecmed 
as if a fla(h of Fire had ran through his Veins. 
Befides the Rattle-Snake, there is the Blowing-Snake, 
anabfplutc Species of a Viper,but larger than any that I 
h^vQ kcn in Eurdpe ; it is fo called, becaufe it feems to 
blow, and'fpread its Head, and fwell very much before 
it bite, which is very deadly. It is Remarkable there 
is none of their Snakes there, make any of that hiflTing 
npife that ours in England make, but only (hoot out 
their. Tongues, fliaking thern as ours do, wichout any 
noife at all ; this is a ihort thick fort of Snake. There 
is another fort of deadly Snake, called the Red Snake ; 
I once narrowly efcaped treading on the back of one of 
them : They are of an ugly dark brown colour, incli- 
ning to red ; their bellies are of a more dusky white, 
with a large {Ireat of Vermilion Red on either fide ; 
this too is of the Viper kind, but is not fo fliort, but 
its Tail is more taper and fmall. The Horn-Snake is, 
as they fay, another fort of deadly Snake; I never faw 
any of them, unlefs once, fliortly after my Arrival in 
that Country, which I cannot atteft to be the Horn- 
Snake, for I could not diftinilly view it, being in a 
Thicket of it was perch'd up about two Foot 
high in a iS^wdfc^^ Branch, its Tail twifted about the 
Shrub, and about a quarter of a Yard flood bolt for- 
ward, leaning over the forked Branch thereof: I could 
not fee the Horn, which they fay it has in its front , 
wherewith it ftrikes, and if it wounds, is as deadly as 
the Rattle-Snake's bite. The Gentleman that' was with 
me, told me it was a Horn-Snake ; but being in haft, 
and on Horfe-back, and the Snake in a Thicket, I could 
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