im) 
j c fo much peftered with them, that a Man goes in 
conftant danger of his Life, that walks abroad in 
“ the Woods. But this is as grofs a Miftake, as 
<r mofl of the other ill Reports' of this Country. For 
ic in the firft Place, this Snake is very rarely feen ; and 
“ when that happens, it never does the leaft JVTif- 
65 chief, unlefs you offer to difturb it, and thereby 
“ provoke it to bite in its own Defence. But it never 
“ fails to give you fair warning, by making a Noife 
4< with its Rattle, which may be' heard at a corive- 
nient Diftance. For my own part, I have travel- 
led the Country as much as any Man in it of my 
< c Age, by Night and by Day, above the Inhabi- 
* c tapts, as well as among them : And yet before the 
firft Iriipreffioti of this Book, I had never feen a 
Rattle-Snake alitfe, and at Liberty, in all my life. 
< e I had feen them indeed after they had been kill'd, 
or pent up in Boxes to be fent to England . The 
< c bite of this Viper, without forne immediate Ap- 
plication, is certainly Death : But Remedies are fo 
well known, that none of their Servants are igno- 
rant of them. I never knew any kill'd by thefe 
< c or any other of their Snakes, although I had a 
46 general Knowledge all over the Country, and had 
" been in every part of it. They have feveral other 
<c Snakes, which are feen more frequently, and have 
“ very little or no hurt in them: viz. fuch as they 
“ call Black-Snake s, Water-Snakes, and Corn* 
^ Snakes . The black Fiper-Snake , and the Cop- 
i£ per-bellied Snake % are faid to be as venemous as the 
“ Rattle-Snake ; but they are as feldorn feen. Thefe 
4i three poifoiious Snakes bring forth theirYoung alive; 
f w! whereas the other three forts lay Eggs, which are 
hatch'd 
