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Page xi
... color , Adytis cum lubricus anguis ab imis Septem ingens gyros , feptena volumina traxit ; Amplexus placidé tumulum ... colors from the fun : Pleas'd round the altars and the tomb to wind , His glittering length of volumes trails behind ...
... color , Adytis cum lubricus anguis ab imis Septem ingens gyros , feptena volumina traxit ; Amplexus placidé tumulum ... colors from the fun : Pleas'd round the altars and the tomb to wind , His glittering length of volumes trails behind ...
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... color of their upper fide bluish , their under fide , as well as that of the neck , ruddy , fpeckled with black . We fufpect an error in the number of the hind legs , the figure being reprefented with four , an ex- cefs we never have ...
... color of their upper fide bluish , their under fide , as well as that of the neck , ruddy , fpeckled with black . We fufpect an error in the number of the hind legs , the figure being reprefented with four , an ex- cefs we never have ...
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... color , but agree in all other respects with the species described by Doctor Plot . Their length from the nose to the hind legs was three inches ; from thence to the end of the tail three and three quarters . Along the back was a black ...
... color , but agree in all other respects with the species described by Doctor Plot . Their length from the nose to the hind legs was three inches ; from thence to the end of the tail three and three quarters . Along the back was a black ...
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... color ; the fides with white ones : the belly , and the fide of the tail , was of a bright yel- low ; the first spotted with black , The tail was compreffed fideways , and very thin towards the upper edge , and flender towards the end ...
... color ; the fides with white ones : the belly , and the fide of the tail , was of a bright yel- low ; the first spotted with black , The tail was compreffed fideways , and very thin towards the upper edge , and flender towards the end ...
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... color of this ferpent is a dirty yellow ; that of the female deeper . Its back is marked the whole length with a series of rhomboid black spots , touching each other at the points ; the fides with triangular ones ; the belly entirely ...
... color of this ferpent is a dirty yellow ; that of the female deeper . Its back is marked the whole length with a series of rhomboid black spots , touching each other at the points ; the fides with triangular ones ; the belly entirely ...
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