i. e. That Cheese only is pleasant and grateful, which does not suck in every Fume, but which is smoak’d only, velabro, in Tents or Booths.

[267]. Boerhaave’s Process, p.

CII. The King’s Snake, is the longest of all others; but not common. It is said to be terrible to other Serpents, though not very venemous and gross: the Indians, Men and Women, in Carolina, make Girdles and Sashes of their Skins, as Signs of Conquest, and wear them as Trophies of Honour.

This puts me in mind of Hippocrates, the Prince of Physicians, who tells us that in the Eastern Parts of Europe, there is a Scythian People, called Sauromatæ, bordering on the Palus Mæotis, where the Women ride on Horse-back, draw the Bow, throw the Javelin as they ride, and fight in their Battles, so long as they remain Virgins; and were not allow’d to marry, till they had killed three Enemies in the Wars[[268]]. Of my Author ’tis said, He neither knew how to deceive, nor be deceived[[269]].

[268]. Hippocrates upon Air, Water, and Situation; upon Epidemical Diseases, &c. translated into English, by the learned Dr. Clifton.

[269]. Of Hippocrates ’tis said,——Qui tam fallere quam falli nescit. -Macrobii Opera, p. 27.

N. B. These were the Women called Amazons, descended from the Scythians, whose Women were as warlike as the Men, and joined with them in their Wars.

CIII. The Corn-Snake, is most like the Rattle-Snake of all others in Colour, but the Chequers are not so regular; neither has it any Rattles. They are frequently found in Corn-fields, from whence, I presume, they have their Appellation. In their Qualities they resemble the Green-Snakes, that are innocent by Nature, and in form admirably pretty, if I may be allow’d by the Ladies, to call a Serpent so.

CIV. The Blowing-Serpent, which is a Species of the Viper, but larger than the European, is so called, because it seems to blow, to spread its Head, and swell very much, before it bites; which Bite is very poisonous, and seems to receive some additional Malignity from the Enlargement of its Head beyond the common Proportion.

CV. The Brimstone-Snake, so denominated from the Similitude of Colour: They might as well call it, the Glass-Snake, for if any Credit be given to the Historian, ’tis as brittle as a Glass-Tube, or a Tobacco-Pipe, so that upon the touch of a Twig, it immediately breaks into several Pieces, which some say, and nobody believes, are capable of Re-union.