May not this Animal serve to represent those gobbling Sots, who brush off the Flies of Melancholy, and drown them in the inchanted Cup? Thus likewise the Sons of _Mammon_ hunt for _golden Flies_, as Entertainments most delicious. XCII. _BROCHET DE TORRE_, or the _Land-Pike_, is a Serpent of about fifteen Inches long, so termed from its Likeness in Figure and Skin to that Fish. Instead of Fins, it has four Feet, too weak to support the Body, therefore crawls on its Belly, after an odd unusual manner, winding its Body about like a Pike newly taken out of the Water; which kind of Motion being strange, strikes Terror into Spectators. _Tetre_ denies it to have the perfect Shape, Head and Skin of the common Pike, and treats _Sieur Rochefort_ with some Roughness, according to Mr. _Ray_. In the Night, these Serpents are found under the Rocks, where they make a frightful Noise, more hideous than the croaking of Frogs and Toads. In _Antigua_ is a Fish called _Cane_, like our _Pike_ in figure, seven or eight Foot long, and big in proportion: It preys like the _Shark_, and especially on human Flesh; and the least Bite of its Teeth proves mortal Poison, without immediate Application of some sovereign Antidote[260]. Footnote 260: _History of the Antilles._ XCIII. The last he mentions, is a _little Serpent_, about seven Fingers in length, and terrible to the Eye. The Skin is embroider’d with black Scales, that look smooth and sleek as if it were a Surface of Oil: It is furnish’d with very sharp Teeth, small Eyes, but so weak that they can’t long face the Light, no more than a _Frenchman_ can look Truth in the face, or a _Spaniard_ the Field of Battle. When this little venemous Animal apprehends any Danger, it immediately digs into the Earth, with its five crooked and strong Claws, that soon penetrate the Ground: ’tis guilty not only of Evils among Beasts, but of great Devastations in Orchards and Gardens[261]. Footnote 261: _Ray._ I have wondered, says a learned Author, to see with what great Quickness, Art, and Strength, many _Vespæ, Ichneumons, wild Bees and Beetles_,—perforate the Earth, yea, even Wood itself; but the most remarkable in this way, is the _Mole-Cricket_[262]. Swine, who dig in the Earth for their Food, have all parts of their Head adapted for that Service, but rather more remarkable in the _Mole_, whose Neck, Eyes, Nose and Ears are all fitted in the nicest manner, to its subterraneous way of Life. Footnote 262: _Derham_ _Phys. Theol._