This _poetick Griffin_ is frequently seen in antient Medals, and is still bore in Coat-Armor. The antient and honourable Family of the _Guillims_ blazons it rampant, alledging any very fierce Animal may be so blazon’d as well as a Lion. It is observable, says my Author, that in the Front of _Clayton-hall_ are two Figures drawn in Plaister in the form of a Coat of Arms; on the right side of the Escutcheon is a Figure with Wings, four Feet, and a Tail twisted in the Form of a Serpent. The like Figure is drawn in Plaister in several antient Houses in that Neighbourhood, which go under the Name of the _Griffin’s Picture_, and the Sign is used at Publick-houses: There is a Place in that Wood called the _Griffin’s-Ark_. _N. B._ This seems to carry some Probability with it, since Eagles are voracious Creatures, and very destructive to Fawns and Lambs, especially the black Eagle, which is of a lesser Size than the other. In some of the _Scots Islands_, the Natives observe, that this Eagle fixes its Talons between the Deer’s Horns, and beats its Wings constantly about its Eyes; several other Eagles flying at the same time on both sides, which puts the Deer upon a continual Run, till it fall into a Pit, or down a Precipice, where it dies, and so becomes a Prey to the Enemy[304]. Footnote 304: _Martin’s Description of the Western Islands of Scotland_, Edit. ii. p. 7. CXXXII. In some of the Western Islands of _Scotland_ are several Serpents: There is one that is _yellow_ with brown Spots, and another with _brown_ Spots; but that which is the most poisonous, is the _black and white spotted_, three or four Foot long. The Remedies are such as these: The Natives cut off the Head of the Serpent that gives the Wound, and apply it to the Place as the best Remedy: Others, by the Application of new Cheese, extract the Poison; and some make use of the Rump of a Cock stript of its Feathers, which they apply to the Wound with Success, according to the Historian[305]. Footnote 305: _Martin_’s _Description of the Isle of Skie_, _&c._ p. 236. In the Library at _Manchester_, is the Skin of a Serpent which was five Yards long, as thick as the Calf of a Man’s Leg; has a forked Tongue, scaly Skin, yellow Colour.