Among the _Andes_ in _America_, are Serpents of prodigious Magnitude, from 25 to 30 Foot long[21]. In the Province of _Caria_, are Serpents ten Yards long, and Ten Hands broad, and their Eyes as large as two small Loaves. In _Brasil_, are found Serpents 30 Foot long. In _Gresham-College, London_, is a Snake preserved in Spirits, that is near two Yards long. Footnote 21: _De Le Vega._ In _Norway_, we read of two Serpents of very large Proportion: One of two hundred Foot long, and lives in Rocks and desolate Mountains, near the Sea, about _Bergen_; which in Summer-Nights ranges about in quest of Plunder, devouring Lambs, Calves, Swine, and other Animals, that fall in its way. In a calm Sea, it ransacks the Superficies of the Water, and devours the _Polypus_ (_i. e._ a little Fish of many Feet) and all sorts of Sea-Crabs.——Upon the Approach of a Ship, this Serpent lifts up its Head above Water, and snatches at the Mariners. My Author adds, that it rolls itself round about the Ship, the more effectually to secure its Prey[22]. The Representation of this you have in _C. Gesner._ Footnote 22: _Olaus Magn._ B. xxi. c. 27. p. 23. _Gesner ex Scalig._ The other Serpent is in the Diocess of _Hammer_, about fifty Cubits long, by Conjecture. In _Bothnia_, on the _Livonian_ Sea, we read of monstrous Serpents, with which the Shepherds of that Country were in constant War. Wonderful Things are reported of the large Serpents that infest the _Helvetian Mountains_. From the Instances above, ’tis evident that the Northern Climates breed Serpents as well as the South; but with this Difference, that they are not so venomous as those in _Africa_, tho’ _Olaus Magnus_, Archbishop of _Upsal_, seems to except the Shrew-Serpent. _Ibid._ There are _Marine_, as well as _Land-Dragons_, of uncommon Bigness: Some in _Ethiopia_ of 30 Paces long, and in _Phrygia_ ten Paces long.——_N. B._ A geometrical Pace is five Foot; but if it be the lesser Pace only, _viz._ the Measure of two Foot and a half, it must be a monstrous Animal[23].——In the Reign of _Philadelphus_, two _Live-Dragons_ were brought from _Ethiopia_ to _Alexandria_, one 13, the other 14 Cubits long. In the Reign of King _Euergetes_, they took three Dragons, one seven Cubits, the other nine Cubits long. The third was carefully nursed in the Temple of _Esculapius_, and no Creature so highly reverenced[24]. Footnote 23: _Gesner_, p. 44. Footnote 24: _Ælian_, l. 16. c. 39. p. 957. On the _Pellonæon Hill_ in _Chius_, was a _Dragon_ whose hideous Noise filled the Vicinity with Horror and Dread; so terrible, that none durst approach so near as to take its Dimensions. It happened, the Wilderness wherein it lived, took fire in a Storm; and being involved in the Smoke and fire, it perished, and, upon viewing its Bones, ’twas concluded to be of a monstrous Bulk. _Ibid._