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An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents : in Two Parts ... : Illustrated ESSAYA N T O WA R D S A NATURAL HISTORY SERPENTS: IN TWO PARTS. I. The FIrft exhibits a general View of Serpents, in their various Afpefts ; fuch as their Kinds, Bulk, Food, Motion, Propagation, Co- verture, Colours. In which is inferted a fhort Account of Vegetable, Mineral, and Animal Poifon, particularly that of the Serpent ; and its Cure in various Nations ; where alfo the Serpent is ufed as Food and Phylick. II. The Second gives a View of moft Serpents that are known in the feverai Parts of the World ; defcribed by their various Names, different Countries, and Qualities. Illuftrated with Copper-Plates, Engraved by the BestHands. III. To which is added a Third Part j containing Six Disserta- tions upon the following Articles, as collateral to the Subjed. 1. Upon the Primeval Serpent in Paradise. 2. The Fiery Serpents that infefted the Camp of Israel. 3. The Brazen Serpent ereded by Moses. 4. The Divine Worship given to Serpents by the Nations. 5. The Origin and Reason of that Monstrous Worship. 6. Upon the Adoration of different Kinds of Beasts by the Egyp- tians, with divers Inflances of the fame Stupidity in other Nations. The whole intermix'd with Variety of Entertaining Digres- sions, Philosophical and Historical. By C HARLES OWEN P.P. LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR. Sold by John Gray, at the Crofs-Keys in the Poultry, near Cheatfm, M.DCC.XLII. o '~V< mi T O Sir Hans Sloane Bar' SIR, is. i.'iij; THE Serpent [Su^jeS? of the follow- ing Sheets,] being one part of your celebrated and expenfive Colledlion of Rarities, naturally leads me to beg the Honour of your Name to grace its Entrance into the publick World. I C A N 't enter into the vanity of thinking, that the Book can be any improvement to one who has been fo long and laborious an Enquirer after Truth, and penetrated fo far A 2 into w D E D 1 C Ar I O N, into the Empire of Nature : but as in Divi- nity5 a willing Mindj fo in Learning, the beft Endeavour will be accepted. And tho' the Book cannot recommend it felf to you, your Name may recommend it to others. Happy are the Tinies, when Knowledge is the ftudy of thofe who have fuperior Abi- lities for it : Happy therefore is the prefent Age, that has you, among many other Learn- ed, fo eminent an Encourager of it. T H o' elevated Minds direct all their con- cern to what they jhould be^ and not to any Applauie for what they really are'j yet, if to delineate their Excellency be ofFenfive to Modefty, the Sincerity with which it is done, will, it is hoped, fecure their Pardon. Now, what is it that makes the great Cha- ra£^er, but Knowledge in all its diverfity, a Sollicitoufnefs for the Spread of Arts and Sciences, excelling in one's particular Station of Life, and being divinely forward to all the high Offices of Humanity } This is the Pi£lure DEDICATION, Pifture of real Worth, and what can forbid to fay, that Sir Hans Sloane is the Life ? That you may long continue the Re- ftorer of Health, the Ornament of the Day, and in triumph over all the deadly Power of the Old Serpent^ at laft poilels eternal Health, are the moft fincere Wifties of him, who with a juft Senie of Obligation, and the greateft: Regards, is. SIR, Tour moft humble, and devoted Servant, M Warrington, March i^ij^x-z. >K^ Cha. Owen* [vi] T O T H E E R. \HE Divine Wifdom fo 'varioujly difplayed in the JVorks of Nature, even the loiveft Order of them, entertains the hu- man Eye with Projpecls exquifitely beautiful afid pleafur- able : As our Knowledge is defeSiive, we are at a lofs how to account perfeSlly for the particular Ends of their Formation, and Manner of their Subferviency to the Whole of the Eternal Defgn. HOWEVER, by Obfervation and Improvements in Natural Philofophy, we are afjured thus far ; that as the Almighty Creator made nothing in 'vain, fo all his Works are good, and admirably fit- ted to aiifwer the Purpofes of his Will-, and that his Wifdom, like his tender Mercies, fnnes through all the Syjlems of his Creatures. I' HAT there is not a wife Purpofe in every thing that is made^ becaufe we do not underfland it, is as abfurd asfor a Man to fay., there is nofuch thing as Lights becaufe he is hlindy and has no Eyes to fee it. FOR the Fllujiration of this, we may take a fhort View of Creatures^ in vulgar account too diminutive and defpicable a Species, to deferve a clofe Attention : And among thefe. If we confider the Noxious, we pallfind, if not an Argument why they fhould be made, yet wefhall be able to difcern no Reafon why they fhould not, becaufe their Noxioufnefs is not fo unavoidable^ but that we may, and almofi every one does avoid it. GENERAL PREFACE. vii G E NE RAL H ISTO RIES of thefe Kinds we have been fumijhed with 'in the Writings of the luearned : Here I apply myfelf to the DifctiJJion ofone particular Species, viz. the Serpent : in which I don't pretend td new Dijsoveries, but only to colleB, ahd bring iftta one View., what has beenfaidby different Perfons, which is not to be found by any without many Books, and much Time ; and which, without the prefent Englifh Dref, 'Would not be underjlood by others at all. IN accounting forfofne things relative to the SubjeSi, I have al-^ ways chojen the Words of the hearnedin the Ph\ftcal ProfeJJion. TH E SubjeB being like Dufl:, theYooA of the Serpent, very dry, / have endeavoured to give it forne Agreeablenefs, by a Variety of Pajfagesfrom Hijlory, and RefleSlions of many kinds ; which, though they may ?iot always naturally arife from the SubjeSi, yet being in- tended for the Reader s Entertainment and InJlruSlion {as he goes along in the principal Dejign of the Book) 1 hope they willfind a fa- vourable yiidgmenf. GIVE me leave, upon this occafion, to adopt Sir William Temple'i Words, viz. " It is not perhaps amifs, fays he, to relieve *' or enliven a bufy Scene fometimes with fuch Digrejions, whe- " ther to the Purpofe or no/'* / SHALL only add, that in cultivating this SubjeB, I have attempted to give ajloort Difplay of the Divine PerfeSlions, which, as they appear eminent in the Sy/iem ef the Creation in general^ fo in; the Serpent they may be feen in particular ; and if it produces in the Reader a more exquifite Perception of God in all his Works, I have my End.; whg am Your Humble Servant. Imflii Memoirs from 1672 to 1679. Ztand Editlp, 57, 58* 59. Directions for the Binder, where to put the Plates, Plate I. aftei' P- 54. Plate II. - - p. 70. Plate III. - - p. 78. Plate IV. - - p. 86. Plate V. - - - p. 94. Plate VI. p. 142 Plate VII. - - p. 152, Pag. ERRATA. Pag. ERRATA. 25 IJ Had Bocca^ inftead of Baca. 141 Head CXXVI. for Navigatioa, r. .W<«- 25 X^ Four Lines from bottom, * after tation. honor, t. other. 147 CXXXIV. r. ;jf//;7« «»</ .6i/i<l7/. 34 Line 2. r. tho'' the Venom may. 148 Head lid. for//, r. />^f/n. 53 Aher Dauphiny, r. and infiead of or. 162 Inftead of Daemon, r. Damon. L. 4. 158 Quotation, r. Natural Hijlory of Lan- from bottom, in Quotation, r. rmtnfjut. cajhire. 171 L. 9. r. their other Faculties "were. 74 L. 14. inftead al Amphishtehick Animals, 195 r. Verdegreafe. J-, Whether there he fwo-keaded Serfen/s 196 r. Nehujhtans. or not. 21 1 r. Gades. ,76 L. 14. from bottom, for Tython, r. Python. 231 Dele 3. 95 L, 5. r. made, for mo've. 237 L. 14. a Comma ihould be z£kt adore. r. 1 09 L. 3 . for could, luould. 112 L.I. r. ^inquennian. N. B. In the Story of the Elephant, pag. 114 L 17. for emits, r. emit. 86. it 'is a miftake, to place the Aftion 115 L. 2. for if they, r. the luounded. at Neiveafle ; the Scene of it being in 122 HeadLXXXIV. t. Jmericina. the Eaft-lndies, according to a Book cal- 132 HeadCXL r. Agnafen. led Hamiltm'i Travth. J 34 >— CXIV. r. Attaligetus. IX List of the SUBSCRIBERS. Mr. Jofeph Archer. T ADTAhney, . B. 4. Mr. Jeremiah Armiger. ^ Mr. Eliz. Abney. Mr. William Arnold. Tbe Reverend Mr. Acres, R. of Mrs. Sarah Afhurft. Newbury. Thomas Allmrft Efq. Jofeph Adams Bfq. Rev. Mr. B..A.' Atkinfon. Mr. Cornelius Adams. Benjamin Avery, LL. D. Mr. James Adams. John Adams JS/j'; o/'Whitland. B. Mr. William Adair, Merchant. Mr. Sam. Bagnal, of Chefter. Mr, Edward Addicot, Apothe- Mr. Bakewell. cary at Exeter. Mrs. Bakewell. Mr. John Adkin. Mr. Geo. Baker. The Rev. Mr. Aldred, ofMovXey, Jofhua Baker E/q. Yorkfhire. Mr. Edmund Baker. The Rev. John Allen, M. D. Mr. Dan. Bailey, 0/ Mancheiler. 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