NATURAL HISTORY, 
PART IV. 
SERPENTS AND REPTILES. 
THE RATTLE SNAKE. 
1. This most dreaded of all snakes is a stranger 
in the eastern continent, but is found throughout 
America. Its usual length is four or five feet. The 
fangs are hollow ; and when the snake is biting, it 
forces the fatal juice out of a gland near the roots 
of them into the wound. 
2. The tail is furnished with a rattle, consisting 
of joints loosely connected, which annually increase 
in number after the third year, previous to which 
Where is the Rattle Snake found 1 How is it described ? 
