if 
484 MISCELLANEOUS WONDEES OF 
” mifflit not really have had the eftect of P‘ ; ^ a j,, 
.. S of .he mouse, ^ 
,, />itlioi- irnm the fixed eye of the sn , v, „ 
limbs ot the mouse, 
proceeded either from the fixed eye of .1*® 
apprehension of inevitable death. It 
vciT certain, that serpents willspoit with 
1 _ ^ Irtll it" ** ■■* -rtt 
cats do, before they kill it.” 'f tlis 
This author notices several pecuhanties gjit 
A vprvmre description of se'P^f foUh it 
noucca =i.v'-‘pi 1-'- ■_ ,meP. ■ f F' 
South Africa. A very rare description of stT 0 ^ 
- It IS from thiec i&’j 
called the SimKTiNG Snake. It is from 
loiif, of a black colour, and has the siiign . .1 
the colonists assert, that, when it |i^ 
r*. Vnnws hnw tO ffive it SUCil *• ,i'Uis .idl' 
the colonists assert, that, when it '"'“"’airect'^' h 
its venom, and knows how to give it such ^ I'lU’ -tif 
hit the eyes of the person making the attack. 
lowed by violent pain,_ and by so gieat . sig!’'\lis" , 
lowed by violent paui, - °r':’ f the ( 
that it frequently occasions the entire loss w ,s 
Pof-Apdek, one of the most poisonous P^^^ >’5' h/,. 
guishable by a disproportionate thickness, s 
handsomely spotted with olack and "'h’ , 
ish ground. It has this peculiarity, 
,-om.rt it swells out its neck to a very ^ t 
t-aged, it swells out its nccK to a ^ 3,1 
tvhich was caught, measured in leng 1 gtest •> 
half, and was about six inches round in iw b^^ SH;'. 
ference.-One of the species, called ^ ,vall f' 
caught while in the act of climbing up ^ts 
house, to take the swallows which had tl ^ i,iiig> i; ,■ 
roof. This snake is extremely adroit at cl 
therefore, a terrible enemy to small W 
tremely venomous, and is considered a 
here noticed, measured six feet in kng*« ^ 
and greyish belly. In tire belly were 
young sw'allows.— The Lemon Si^vK ^p-cel 
feet in length, and has a skin of a fine 
larly spotted with black. 
the elephant. 
How instinct varies in the grov Uin^.j 
Compar'd, half-reasoning vkP''“" =’ c I 
Twixtthat, and reason, what a i 
For ever separate, yet for ever o 
The largest elephants are from ten to eleT 
some are said to exceed it ; but the at c 
They are fifty or sixty years before 
feet, 
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