The Poets tell us, that in the _Bacchanalian Train_, were a Croud of _Nymphs_ and _Naiades_, a sort of Heathen Divinities; some crown’d with Ivy, their Hair loose, and intermix’d with Snakes, clothed with the Skins of Beasts, and girt about with large Serpents, and running frantick in the Woods and Mountains. In short, their sacred Games, Festivals, and Sacrifices, were little more than drunken Banquets, nocturnal Revels, tumultuous Dancings, all wild, ridiculous and extravagant. _F I N I S._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] INDEX A. _ACONTIA_ Serpent, (the Figure, Plate 4;) why call’d a flying Serpent, 81 _Adam_, why not made impeccable, 171 —— Converse betwixt him and Angels, 173 —— in Innocency put in mind of Death, 181 —— his Fall described by _Pagans_, 182, 3 —— —— —— —— by _Mahometans_, 184 _Adder_; see _Viper_. (the Figure, Plate 1) _Agnasen_ Serpent, 132 _Air_, ador’d by _Pagans_, 210 _Alexander the Great_, and _Alexander the Little_, 140 _Amodytes_ Serpent, describ’d, 53, 4 _Amphisbæna_, a two-headed Serpent, describ’d, 72 —— Instances of one in _Oxfordshire_, and in _Chiapa_ in _America_, [TN] _Ambua_ Serpent, 107 _Ameiva_ Serpent, 122 _Americina_, 122 _Anacandia_ Serpent, [TN] _Ants_, their Penetration, 8 —— in _America_ great Master-Builders, 8, 132 —— Remarkable Sorts in the _East-Indies_, 8 _Anguis laqueus_, or the Ensnaring-Serpent, 136 _Animals_, turn’d into Gods by _Pagans_, 213 —— Their Adoration ridicul’d by some of themselves, 215, 236, 237 _Apollo_, catechis’d for his dubious Answers, 77 —— His She-Priest, _ibid._ _Apotheosis_, or Deification describ’d, 223 _Asp_, (the Figure, Plate 2,) described, 59 —— Its Foresight, 60 —— A Poem on the Asp and its Poison, 61 —— Highly venerated among the _Egyptians_, 70 _Attaligatus_ Serpent, 134 B. _Basilisk_ Serpent, (the Figure, Plate 3) describ’d, 78 —— why call’d King of Serpents, 79 —— (_African_, Plate 3) _Battle_ of the Gods, 212 _Bees_, (the Figure, Plate 5) their Sagacity, great Geometricians, 8 —— Their Sting describ’d, 148 _Birds_, why some here only in Winter, and others only in Summer, 7 _Biobi_, or green Serpent describ’d, 103 _Bibera_ Serpent, 107 _Bitin_ Serpent, 137 _Blowing_ Serpent, 130 _Boignacu_ Serpent, very beautiful, 106 _Boytiapua_ Serpent, 108 —— An Instrument of Conjuration, 109 _Bomsnake_ Serpent, 109 _Boicupecanga_ Serpent, prickle-back’d, 110 _Boitiapo_ Serpent, 117 _Brochet de Torre_, or Land-pike, 124 _Brimstone_ Snake, 130