_Memoirs_, 2d Edit. p. 502. This Land Crocodile is indeed an amphibious Animal, lives partly in the Water and partly upon dry Ground: It has four slender Legs like a Lizard; its Snout is sharp, and its Tail short, cover’d with small Scales of a silver Colour. ’Tis hatch’d in _Egypt_, near the Red-Sea, in _Libya_, and the _Indies_. In _Leviticus_ there’s mention made of a kind of _Crocodile_, in the _Hebrew_ called _Choled_, which the Septuagint translates κροκοδειλος χερσαιος, a land Crocodile, which is a kind of Lizard, that feeds upon the sweetest Flowers it can find; this makes its Intrails to be very much valued for their agreeable Smell. _Bellonius_ says, it has four Feet, and a round knotty Tail, and is as big as the _Salamander_. There’s scarce any way to manage him by Land, unless it be by a Wile, as they do on the Bank of _Nilus_, where little Huts are erected, from whence the Watchmen, upon the Approach of a Crocodile, spring out with long Branches in their Hands, which they, with great Dexterity, thrust into its Throat; and not being able to extricate itself, it falls down, upon which others of them discharge their Arrows at his Belly, which being a tender part, he is soon killed; but in Water he is quickly noosed, because for want of a Tongue, he can’t safely open his wide Mouth, without being suffocated. This terrestrial Crocodile comes to us by way of _Alexandria_ and _Venice_, and is very useful in physical Prescriptions. LXXVII. The _Cordylus_ is a little noxious Reptile, supposed by some to be the _Land Crocodile_, because upon first sight it looks like the _Nilotic_; but upon a stricter view, the Fallacy appears. The Back is cover’d with close compacted Scales, as a House with Tiles, by which ’tis distinguish’d. Its Tail is rough, and like a Club, wherewith it strikes whatever it meets, therefore is called _Caudiverbera_, that is, one that strikes with the Tail; a Tail prominent with War[254]. Footnote 254: _Raii Synopsis Animalium Quadrupedum_, p. 263. LXXVIII. The _Tapayaxin_ is a Lizard of _New Spain_, and of a round form; and, _Spaniard_-like, is slow in Motion, and as loth to change its Seat, as the _Spaniards_ their old Fashions and Customs. This little Creeper is of the northern Tribe, being generally found in the Mountains of cold Regions. It is observable, that if its Head be comprest or squeezed, it will throw out drops of Blood with a Force that will carry them several Yards off[255]. Footnote 255: See _Dr. Plot’s History of Staffordsh._ p. 252. LXXIX. The _Lacertus Viridis_, or green Lizard, is found in _Italy, &c._ lives in Meadows, and being of the harmless kind, little is said of it. There are many Lizards of other Colours, but none so beautiful as the green ones; tho’ very small, they are pretty: Many make themselves very familiar with them, and put them in their Bosom[256]. Footnote 256: _Nat. History of Carolina_, 131, 2. _N. B._ These are found in _Ireland_.