[ M5 ] 
The Lizard , by way of Pre-eminence, this being 
the gigantic or largeft Species of the Lizard Family $ 
the Word being compounded of the Arabic Article 
Al , the , and Lagarto , a. Corruption of the Latin 
Word Lacertus , a Lizard ; and from the Words 
Al Lagarto , our Englijh Sailors have formed the. 
Word Alligator. 
Candela Americana , /??///> laurinis y flore tetra * 
petalo lateo , fruSu anguftiore. 
The Mangrove- tree. Thefe Trees grow in watery 
muddy Places, even in fhallow fait Water : They are 
propagated not only by their Pods, which falling off 
take Root in the Mud, but likewife by the Branches,, 
which, if they hang down fo as touch the Mud, will 
take Root, and fend up other Stems ; fo that great 
Tradts of Land are over- run from one original Tree, 
which forms an impenetrable Wood, the Retreat of 
fmall Alligator s, Turtles, ', and various Fi(h of Prey. 
It was probably of this Sort of Tree the Forefts 
were compos’d, which 6L Curtins mentions Lib. IX. 
Cap. i. * 
64. Lacertus Indicus, Senembi & Iguana diffius. 
The Guana. This fort of Lizard is fome two, fomo 
five Feet long. They are the chief Food of the 
Inhabitants of the Bahama lllands, where they take 
great Numbers of them, having Dogs train’d up to 
that 
* Hinc Poro, amneque fuperato, ad interiora Indix proceffit [Alex- 
ander]. Sylvie erant prope in immenfum fpatium diffufe, procerif- 
que & in eximiam alcitudinem editis arboribus umbrofx : plerique 
rami inftar ingentium ftipitum Hexi in humum, rurfus, qua fe curva- 
verant, erigebamur, adeo ut fpecies effet non rami rdurgentis, fed; 
arboris ex fua radice generate. 
