480 MISCaLLANEOUS WONDJiKS Ctf NATUl'®’ 
declares that he was himself an eye-witness of 
this I 
Happening, in his walk, to disturb a large ratU'- ; , 
creature immediately coiled itself up, opened it’ J 
instantly five small ones, which were lying w., -i 
into its mouth. He retired, and watched the sn® ^ 
a quarter of an hour saw her again discharge thc>it__| 
approached a second time, when the young 
mouth with greater celerity than before, and the ■ 
mediately moved olf among the grass, and escap®“ 
THE COBRA DE CAPELI.O. 
The following interesting account of this very 
native of India, is extracted from Forbe.s’s Orient ' 
a work the nients ot which canuoi be suificientJ) I 
“ The Cobra de Capello, crhooded-snake (c‘ _ jjj’gt '|i,' 
\ t .c 
coluber class ; its bite genenilly jtrovcs mortal 
called by the Indians the naag, or nagao, itt - f 
beautilnl serpent ; but one of the moat \ enon-‘it‘’ 
■ - 
iltf ** 
n\ 
!:tck‘'-'^p^ 
hour. It is called the hooded-snake, from ha' 
hood near the liead, which it contracts or 
pleasure; the centre of this hood is marked i;i "Jr 
like a pair of spectacles, whence it is also 
tacle snake. . . 
“ Of this genus are the dancing-snakes, vvliuft ^ 
in baskets throngliout Hindostan, and procure a riK 
for a set of peo[)le, who play a few siniiilo 
flute, with which the snakes seem much 
time by a graceful motion of the head, 
‘heir length from the ground, and following ' 
gentle curves, like the undulating lines i’.fest®' .I,;'’' 
It is a well-attested fact, that wlien a house 
these snakes, and some other of the coluber g _^j.j 
destroy poultry and small domestic animals. 
larger serpents of the boa tribe, the mnsicians 
who, by playing on a flageiet, find out their h‘ 
and charm them to destruction : for no sooner .< 
hear the music, than 
and are easily taken. . 
known in Palestine, Ifom tlie Psalmist coropar>h§( 
- li "lit 
they come sofily trohr ijsk'hiiiiJ 
I imagine these 
d 
her ears, 
to the deaf adder, which stoppeth gu ■ ■ ] 
hear tlie voice ot the charmer, charm he neve* 
“ When the music ceases the snakes apP*-*^ 
