It goes under various Appellations. The _Greeks_ called it Guardian of their Houses[300], it being of the innocent sort. Some of the _Italians_ call it _Carbonarium_, a Collier, because its Colour inclined to Coal-black, or Iron. Mr. _Ray_ calls it, the _common Snake_. It is larger than a Viper, and more gross in Body; brings forth its Young by Eggs, hatch’d by foreign Heat; feeds on Mice; sucks Cows, upon which follows Blood. The Reader is referred to a former. Footnote 300: Οφεις οικουροι. [Illustration: _Plate 6^{th}._ ] CXXVIII. The _Marine-Dragon_, as _Pliny_ calls it, or the _true Marine-Serpent_, in the Dialect of _Jonstonus_, who, in his Description of Fishes, gives a particular account of it. We have already accounted for monstrous Serpents in the _Indies_, where some have Teeth in the form of a Saw, with which they do more hurt than with their Poison, says the _Greek_ Historian[301]. Footnote 301: _Æliani Hist._ lib. xvi. cap. 3. In _Africa_, are some large and strong enough to contend with Oxen by Land, and to overturn a three-oar’d Galley by Water; which agrees in Character with those of _Norway_ already described: There we found some of 200 Foot long, winding themselves about Ships, according to _Olaus Magnus_, Archbishop of _Upsal_. In several of the _Persian Islands_ are some of twenty Cubits long, and very terrifying to Sailors. Such also are seen in the Promontory of _Carmania_, the Residence of the _Ichthyophagi_, a People that feed wholly upon Fish; a fine Country for such who are inclin’d to keep a _perpetual Lent_. Tho’ these Monsters are born in the Deep, yet are they found in fresh Waters, and sometime sporting upon Land, where they sleep[302]. Footnote 302: _Jonston. de Piscib._ p. 9. Articulus v. The same Author tells us, of a _terrible Battle_ that happen’d in _Turkey_, in the time of _Bajazet_, between the _land_ and _marine Serpents_, that continued from Morning to Night, when after a great Destruction on both sides, the _Marines_ fled. _Ibid._ CXXIX. The _Rubetarian-Serpent_ is a very noisy Animal, who for its croaking Noise is resembled to a land Toad. It also engages the Attention of the Eye, for it excels in Beauty: It’s known among Country People by these two Characteristicks, _viz._ _Loud_ and _Pretty_. Here we see, what is an Offence to the Ear may be a pleasing Entertainment to the Eye; thus the Five Senses agree to differ in their several Perceptions, and to meet in several distinct Apartments of the capital Temple, in the pacifick Empire. But to return to the _beautiful Padalica_ of the _Polonians_: It is said of this Serpent, that when it wounds any in the Foot, the Remedy is to put the wounded part into the next Earth, that is inclined to the moist, for twenty-four hours. This seems to differ from the _American Rubeta_.