T HE 
GREAT BOA. 
Generic Character. 
Tranfverfe Lamella both on the abdomen and 
beneath the tail. 
Specific Character. 
VARIEGATED BOA with about 240 Lamellae 
on the abdomen and 60 beneath the tail. 
By thofe who are unacquainted with the wonders of 
Nature, the descriptions given by Naturalifts of forne of 
the more ftriking and Singular animals, are received 
with a degree of cautious fcepticifm, or even rejected 
as exceeding the bounds of credibility. Amongft thefe 
animals may well be numbered the prodigious Serpents 
which are Sometimes Soundin India, Africa, and America; 
Serpents of So great a fize as to be able to ingorge even 
Some of the larger quadrupeds, and of So enormous a 
length as to meafure 20, 25, and 30 feet. There is 
reafon to believe that thefe immenfe Serpents are be*, 
come leSs common now than Some centuries backwards, 
and that in proportion as cultivation and population 
have increafed, the larger Species of noxious animals 
have been expelled from the haunts of mankind, and 
driven into the more diftant and uncultivated trafts. 
They are Hill however occasionally Seen, and Some*. 
times 
