400 MISCBLLANEOUS ‘WOWDERS OF NATUR®' 
nothing but an actual view of a highly-coloured [yy, 
of the animal itself can convey a complete idea- 
specimens, the yellow tinge is often lost in an un‘ ^ ^ 
cast, and the red tinge of the variegations sinks i 
chesnut : in some instances the general tegulapjgf 
pattern, as above described, is disturbed by a 
lluent appearance. The head is invariably 
by a large longitudinal dark band, and by a narro 
band passing across the eyes towards the neck. ^ 
It was, in all probability, an enormous speciif it 
very serpent which once threw a whole 
dismay. The fact is recorded by Valerius ’ 
/~\T^ Incfr Kr»r\lrc rtf* T.IVV. ^ .U 
quotes it from one of the lost books of Livy, " jjic v. 
at a oTf-arpr lf»mtih . He relates that n^ 
detailed at a greater length. He relates tnai j i- u 
'so enorniu 
s Uegulu 
aving 
, and ki 
others by striking and squeezing them witli . 
- - ■ it "‘..fit 
Bagrada, in Africa, a snake was seen of so enorn’ ^ 
iiitude as to prevent the army of Attilius (clKt'^y, 
of the river ; and which, after having s^' J 
use ot Uie river ; and which, after 
several soldiers with its enormous mouth, and 
witli 
its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing >t |f 
force of military engines and showers of stone*> 
withstood the attack of their spears Snd darts, 
garded by the whole array as a more formidable -g(i 
even Carthage itself. The whole adjacent 
tainted with the pestilential effluvia proceeding 
remains, as were the waters with its blood, so . ^|,j 5 1 ■ <, 
the Homan army to shift its station. The skin 
ster, measuring in length one hundred and 
,vas sent to Borne as a trophy, and was there 
a temple, where it remained till tlie time of n‘ 
war. ( th* 
In the narrative of Mr. Me Leod, sutgeon 
frigate, which conveyed the late embassy iq 
was wrecked in the Straits of Caspar, is an * ,!^j 
BOA CONSTRICTOR having been embarked 
r’nocor thf- vessel whieh hrnnirht home tllO at 
a'9 
:ty' 
ye 
The details 
of'’,yJ/ 
Caesar, tire vessel which brought home 
crew of the shipwrecked frigate. The de 
interest ; but the mode in which this prodigy , ,. 
during the passage, supplied with its food, 
to shuddei. Well may Sir Richard Phillips n- 
in the supplementary numbei of the Monffl ? ^ jw 
[No. 307- p. 646,] that the parties guilty or 
