SO,3 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA! 
-beautifully variegated, as the garter, the fib*' 
boo, the blueish green snake, &c. &c. Of 
the venomous kind, the most common are the 
rattle snake, and the copper or mocassin snake. 
The former is found chiefly on the mountains; 
bet although frequently met with, it is very 
rarely that people are bitten by it; scarcely a 
summer, however, passes over without several 
being' bit by the copper snake. The poison of 
the latter is not so subtile as that of the rattle 
snake, but it is very injurious, and if not at¬ 
tended to in time, death will certainly ensue. 
The rattle snake is very dull, and never at¬ 
tacks a person that does not molest him; but, 
at the same time, he will not turn out of the 
way to avoid any one; before he bites, he al¬ 
ways gives notice by shaking his rattles, so that 
a person that hears them can readily get out of 
his way. The copper snake, on the contrary, 
is more active and treacherous, and, it is said, 
will absolutely put himself in the way of a per¬ 
son to bite him. Snakes are neither so nu¬ 
merous nor so venomous in the northern as in 
the southern states. Horses, cows, dog;s, and 
fowl, seem to have an innate sense of the dan¬ 
ger they are exposed to from these poisonous 
reptiles, and will shew evident symptoms of 
fear on approaching near them, although they 
are dead ; but what is remarkable, hogs, so far 
from being afraid of them, pursue and devour 
