snake's slough. 
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are growing loose, and a new skin is forming, the creature, m 
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 t remember to have found one of these sloughs so intricately interwoven amongst 
some brakes that it was with difficulty removed without bevAg broken: this undoubtedly was 
done by the creature to assist in getting rid of its incumbrance. 
I 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 30lh of March 1777, I saw one with something ragged 
banging to it, which appeared to Ue part of its old sk'm. — Markwice. 
