THE WONDERS OF NATURE, &c. OF SERPENTS. Extracted from the celebrated Calmet's Dictionary of the Bibles The following account may be relied on as truth. Calmet being well known to the literary world as a judicious writer of natural history. It may be remarked, that the account here given of Dragons and those large and fearful Serpents which inhabit the mountains, low lands, and seas, of the Indies, Africa, &c. remarkably illustrate many passages found in the writings of the Holy Scriptures, where those monsters are alluded to by way of com parison. Tappears, from several places in this work, that if we have not annihilated those numerous dragons which occur in our public translation, yet we have changed them for creatures of veit is therefore, in some degree, incumbent are which Scripture intends by the term dragon: and that be certain of our instance on this subject, we select that which also is ex1st, |