snake's slough. 
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are growing loose, and a new skin is forming, the creature, in 
appearance, must be blind, and feel itself in an awkward uneasy 
situation.* 
* I have seen many sloughs or skins of snakes entire, after they have cast them off; and once 
in particular I remember to have found one of these sloughs so intricately interwoven amongst 
some brakes that it was with difficulty removed without being broken : this undoubtedly was 
done by the creature to assist in getting rid of its incumbrance. 
1 have great reason to suppose that the eft or common lizard also casts its skin or slough, but 
not entire like the snake, for on the 30th of IVlarch 1777, I saw one with something ragged 
hanging to it, which appeared to be part of its old skin. — Mabk'wick. 
