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Galenus, De Theriaca ad Pisonem; Pliny, lib. 10, cap. 62.—H.
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"The adder or viper alone among serpents brings forth not eggs but living creatures."
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Sallust, cap. 40, Pliny, lib. 37, cap. 2.—H.
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See Diodorus Siculus.—H.
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Here follows an account of Roman and Carthaginian galleys which "did not only match, but far exceed" in capacity our ships and galleys of 1587.—W.
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A name devised by her grace in remembrance of her own deliverance from the fury of her enemies, from which in one respect she was no less miraculously preserved than was the prophet Jonas from the belly of the whale.—H.
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So called of her exceeding nimbleness in sailing and swiftness of course.—H.
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Here follows a paragraph about the legendary foundation of the universities.—W.
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Cambridge burned not long since.—H.
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Here follows an account of Oxford and Cambridge castles, and the legend of the building of Osney Abbey by Robert and Edith D'Oyley.—W.