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SALAMANDER, 
Generic Character . 
Body four-footed, tailed, naked, 
Specific Character. 
XJZARJD with cylindric Ihortifli tail and un^ 
armed feet; the fore-feet divided into four 
toes, the body porous and naked. 
There feems to prevail in the human mind an inhe¬ 
rent propenfity to the marvellous. Not contented 
with the variety of real miracles which Nature through 
fill her kingdoms fo liberally exhibits, the world has 
long been entertained with the hidories of ideal wond¬ 
ers and imaginary monders, which never exided but in 
the brains of their firft deferibers, 
Amongd beings of this clafs mud be reckoned the 
large dragons deferibed by the old writers; the Lamia, 
deferibed a f s having the head and breads of a woman, 
with a body like that of a panther, and covered with 
feales: to this order mud alfo be referred the ideal Sa¬ 
lamander of the vulgar; which is thought capable of 
living unhurt in the fire. 
The real Salamander is nothing more than a fmallilh , 
ji'<ard, which is found very frequently in Germany, 
and 
