. Sacred geography, and antiquities . THE CONEY. THE THE EAGLE. THE WILD ASS. PALESTINE. 223 Petlien, rendered adder in the book of Psalms (58 :4; 91 : 13); else-where asp (Dent. 32:33; Job 20:14, 16; Isa. 11:8). The prevailingopinion is, that this word denotes the Naja Jiaye of naturalists, which isnearly allied to the cobra of India. It has the body spotted with blacKand white, and is very venomous. Sliephiphon (Gen. 49 :17), rendered adder. It is thought by some tobe the honied cerastes. T&eplia and tsiplioni, once rendered adder (Prov. 23 : 32); elsewherecockatrice (Isa. 11 :

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. Sacred geography, and antiquities . THE CONEY. THE THE EAGLE. THE WILD ASS. PALESTINE. 223 Petlien, rendered adder in the book of Psalms (58 :4; 91 : 13); else-where asp (Dent. 32:33; Job 20:14, 16; Isa. 11:8). The prevailingopinion is, that this word denotes the Naja Jiaye of naturalists, which isnearly allied to the cobra of India. It has the body spotted with blacKand white, and is very venomous. Sliephiphon (Gen. 49 :17), rendered adder. It is thought by some tobe the honied cerastes. T&eplia and tsiplioni, once rendered adder (Prov. 23 : 32); elsewherecockatrice (Isa. 11 : 8 ; 14 : 29 ; 59 : 5 ; Jer. 8 : 17). The particular si^eciesis unknown. It remains to consider the term sar((pli, hurning or jiery^ used with orwithout the addition oinahasli, serpent (Numb. 21 : 6, 8 ; Deut. 8 : 15). InIsa. 14 : 29 ; 30 : 6, the eT^\i\\eiJiying is added. No serpents have wings, butsome of them have the habit, when excited, of raising themselves w^y onthe coil of the tail, and expanding the skin in the upper part of the bodybelow the neck i

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