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BATH. 
among the fragmentary rocks. He inquired, and 
found that this, to him, very extraordinary Snake 
was well enough known thereabouts. He afterwards 
learned that it was occasionally encountered in the 
woods about Bath, in St. Thomas in the East. When 
your application to the public was published in the 
‘ Agricultural Reporter,’ he felt so anxious to meet 
your call for this particular reptile, that he offered a 
pound for a specimen ; hut although he had several 
promises from persons who professed to he acquainted 
with the Snake, he was not fortunate enough to ob- 
tain one. He has promised to be mindful still of the 
subject for you. 5th January, 1847.” 
While engaged in preparing these pages for the 
press, I looked over the magnificent volumes of Seba, 
‘‘ Thesaurus Rerum Naturalium,” hoping that in the 
vast number of Serpents delineated by him, I might 
discover some parallel to the structure of this extra- 
ordinary animal. Nor was I wholly disappointed. 
In his second volume, plate 103, is the representation 
of a large Serpent, assigned to both Arabia and 
Brazil, about which, it is true, some rather apo- 
cryphal legends are narrated, but which seems to have 
been drawn from a real subject. It has the occiput 
enlarged into a bifid prominence, forming two 
rounded lobes. In the same volume, pi. 18, fig. 3, 
there is a Serpent from Amboyna, which is furnished 
with a lengthened process curving downward from 
the base of the inferior jaw on each side, the lower 
edge of which appendage is pectinated, or beset with 
a row of short bristles. But more to the purpose 
are the figures of two species of rather small size, in 
plate 40 of the same volume. Of the former, the 
