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not fee the Horn ; but had I thought I Ihould never 
have feen more of them, I fliould have took a little 
pains to have been better fatisfied. This I think may 
not improperly be referred to the Dart-Snakes. 
The Black Snake^ is the largeft I think of all others, 
but I am fure the moft common; I have kill'd feveral 
of them full fix Foot long, their Bite is not deemed 
Mortal, but it fwells, and turns to a Running Sore; 
they feed upon Lizards, Mice, Rats, Frogs, and Toads, 
which I have taken out of their Bellies. I was once a 
Simpling in the Woods, on a fair Sun-fliine day, when 
I faw a Snake crawling on a Tree that was fallen, and 
licking with its forked Tongue as it moved ; I flood 
ftillto obferve it, and faw it lick up fmall Infefts and 
Flies, with wonderful nlmblenefs, catching them be- 
twixt the Forks of its Tongue. 
The Corn-Snake, moft like the Rattle-Snake of all 
others in colour, but the Checkers are not (b regular, 
neither has it any Rattles: They are moft frequent in 
the Corn-Fields, and thence I fuppofe fo called ; the 
Bite is not (b venomous as the Black Snake s. 
The Water-Snake^ a fmall Snake, I never faw any of 
them above a Yard long, though I have fometimes ften 
40 or 50 at once; they are of an ugly dark blackifli 
colour : They fay, they are the leaft Venomous of any. 
, Methodui 
