The word _Musk_ comes from the _Arabic_, _Moscha_, a Perfume of strong Scent, only agreeable when moderated by the Mixture of some other Perfume, by which it becomes an agreeable artificial Odour.... Musk is found in a little Swelling, like a præternatural Tumor, or Bag growing (about the Bigness of a Hen’s Egg) under the Belly of a wild Beast, of the same Name; and appears to be nothing else, but a kind of bilious Blood there congeal’d. This _Musk-Animal_ is common in the _East-Indies_, as in the Kingdoms of _Boutan_, _Cochin China_, but the most esteem’d are those of _Tibet_. When the Bladder under the Belly is taken out, they separate the congeal’d Blood, and dry it in the Sun. Sir _John Chardin_[243] says, _Musk_ is also produced in _Persia_ from an Impostume in the Body of a Beast, that resembles a _Goat_, and grows near the Navel, and is better than that of _China_. The Scent of it, adds he, is so strong, that it many times kills those who hunt the Beast, when they first open the Bag, except they stop their Mouths and Noses with Linnen: ’Tis easily counterfeited, and the best way to try it, is by drawing a _Thread_, dipt in the Juice of Garlick, thro’ the _Bag_ with a Needle; and if the Garlick loses its Scent, the Musk is good. _Atl._ 397. Footnote 243: _His Travels._ LXXV. The _Boitiapo_ (that should have been mention’d before with its _Brazilian_ Relatives) is a large Serpent, about seven Foot long, not quite so thick as a Man’s Arm, of an olive Colour, yellow Belly, in Body round, cloath’d with Scales that make an elegant Appearance in a sort of triangular form. ’Tis very venemous, and its Wounds not curable without timely and proper Applications. The _Lacertan Snakes_ or Lizards come next under Consideration, and in the same order as laid down by the learned Mr. _Ray_[244]. Previous to that, I beg leave to observe, that _Moses_ places two sorts of _Lizards_ among unclean Creatures, the _Stellio_ and _Lacerta_. These Lizards differ vastly in Bulk; some a Finger’s length; in _Arabia_, some of a Cubit long; in the _Indies_, twenty-four Feet in length. Several sorts of _Lizards_ are mention’d in Scripture, _Lev._ xi. 30. the two former are translated _Stellio_ and _Lacerta_; the third is translated a _Mole_, but _Bochart_ maintains, it is a _Cameleon_; the fourth is describ’d _Prov._ xxx. 28. and there, _Spider_ is render’d _Stellio_, a Lizard. Mr. _Ray_ begins with Footnote 244: _Synopsis Animal. de Lacertis._ LXXVI. The _Crocodile_, the largest of the _Lacertan_ Race, a Name which is supposed to come from a word[245] that signifies _afraid of Saffron_, because this Creature abhors the Smell of _Saffron_, as a learned Author observes[246]. It is an amphibious Beast, noisome and voracious, and one of the Wonders of Nature; for, from an Egg no bigger than that of a Goose, proceeds an Animal which increases to eight or ten Yards in length. Footnote 245: Κροκοδειλος δειλος. _Græcis timidus._ Footnote 246: _Calmet._