. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. na .ve who produccMl the Snake-stonos, employed a small piece of wood as a chanu to render the Snake harndess wlule he liandled it. ?,!r. Lavalliere, in the course ot h narration, lynunks that the man who Nvas bitten proceeded to bandaLje his leff above the woiâ,d, and t(. stroke it downwards with a piece of some root. I have also inspected the dentical substances in the two cases Just narrated, and have come to the conclusiou that no virtue res
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. na .ve who produccMl the Snake-stonos, employed a small piece of wood as a chanu to render the Snake harndess wlule he liandled it. ?,!r. Lavalliere, in the course ot h narration, lynunks that the man who Nvas bitten proceeded to bandaLje his leff above the woiâ,d, and t(. stroke it downwards with a piece of some root. I have also inspected the dentical substances in the two cases Just narrated, and have come to the conclusiou that no virtue resides m the particular plant from which the charm is taken, but the whole ot Its value lies m the conlidence with which the possessor is inspired _ Tliere are three specimens of charmed woods, all belonoins to different plants. One IS apparentlv a part ot an nnstolochia, another is so small and shrivllcd that it cannot be identified, while the llunl, on being cut and tasted, proves to be nothincr more or le. ban a piece oi common ouioer. This fact serves to establish the theorv of Mr. Waterton that there is no particular secret in Snake-charmin- except the of confidence and unhesitating resolution. '"â 'truLc OXE notable peculiarity in the Cobra is the expansion of tiic neck, popularly called the hood. 1 his phenomenon IS attributable, not only to the skin and muscles, but to the skeletoi/ About twenty pairs of he ribs of the neck and fore part of tlie back are Hat instead of curved, and increase from head to the eleventh or twelfth pair, from which thev decrease until they are merged into the ..rdinury curved ribs of the body. When the Snake is excited. It brings these ribs forward so as to spread the skin, and then displays the o\ al hood to best advantage. In this species, the back of the hood is (.d with two Jarge eye-like .spo s, united by a curved black stripe, so formed that the whole mark bears a singular resemblance to a pair
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