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but they are apt to difturb hen-roofts and prey 
upon chickens. They are as innocent as a worm 
with refpedt to venom* are eafily tamed* and foon 
become very familiar. 
The pine or bull fnake is very large and inoffen^ 
five with refpeht to mankind, but devours fquirrels* 
birds, rabbits, and eyery other creature it can 
take as food. They are the largeft fnake yet known 
in North America, except the rattle fnake* and per- 
haps exceed him in length : they are pied black and 
white : they utter a terrible loud hiding noife, 
founding very hollow and like diftant thunder, when 
irritated, or at the tme of incubation, when the 
males contend with each other for the defired fe- 
male. Thefe ferpents are alfo called horn fnakes, 
from their tail terminating with a hard, horny fpur, 
which they vibrate very quick when difturbed, but 
they never attempt to ftrike with it; they have 
dens in the earth, whither they retreat precipitately 
when apprehenfive of danger. 
There are many other fpecies of fnakes in the 
regions of Florida and Carolina; as the water 
fnake, black fnake, garter fnake, copper belly, ring 
neck, and two or three varieties of vipers, befides 
thofe already noticed in my journal. Since I have 
begun to mention the animals of thefe regions, this 
may be a proper place to enumerate the other tribes 
w r hich I obferved during my peregrinations. I ihall 
begin with the frogs (ranae.) 
(i) The largeft frog known in Florida and on 
the fea coaft of Carolina, is about eight or nine 
inches in length from the nofe to the extremity of 
the toes : they are of a dulky brown or black co- 
lour on the upper fide* and their belly or under fide 
white* 
