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... also well known that quacks have eaten them , and have befides squeezed their juices into a glass , and drank them with impunity . fonous . We may say also , that these reptiles are a common food to many animals ; to buzzards , owls ...
... also well known that quacks have eaten them , and have befides squeezed their juices into a glass , and drank them with impunity . fonous . We may say also , that these reptiles are a common food to many animals ; to buzzards , owls ...
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... also near Revesby Abby , Lincolnshire , where it is called the Natter Jack . It never leaps , neither does it crawl with the flow pace of a toad , but its motion is liker to running . Several are found commonly together , and , like ...
... also near Revesby Abby , Lincolnshire , where it is called the Natter Jack . It never leaps , neither does it crawl with the flow pace of a toad , but its motion is liker to running . Several are found commonly together , and , like ...
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... also heard of a green lizard frequent near Farn- bam , which probably may be of that kind : but the most uncommon fpecies we ever met with any ac- count of , is that which was killed near Wofcot , in the parish of Swinford ...
... also heard of a green lizard frequent near Farn- bam , which probably may be of that kind : but the most uncommon fpecies we ever met with any ac- count of , is that which was killed near Wofcot , in the parish of Swinford ...
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... also added the virtues of its flesh ( whatsoever they be ) are at the fame time confiderably leffened . These animals , when at liberty , remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet when confined have never been obferved to take their ...
... also added the virtues of its flesh ( whatsoever they be ) are at the fame time confiderably leffened . These animals , when at liberty , remain torpid throughout the winter ; yet when confined have never been obferved to take their ...
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... also another . Doctor Mead fufpects the efficacy of this last , and substitutes one of his own in its place * ; but we had rather truft to vulgar receipts which per- petual trials have fhewn to be infallible . its bite . The symptoms of ...
... also another . Doctor Mead fufpects the efficacy of this last , and substitutes one of his own in its place * ; but we had rather truft to vulgar receipts which per- petual trials have fhewn to be infallible . its bite . The symptoms of ...
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