Footnote 116: _Mors est ante oculos Seps stetit exiguus—Parva modo Serpens, sed qua nonnulla cruentæ. Fugit rupta cutis._ Lucan Pharsal. lib. ix. p. 271. These Serpents are _Asiaticks_, Inhabitants of the Rocks in _Syria_; _Syria_, the supposed western _Porch_ of _Paradise_. These resemble the _Hemorrhous_ in Colour and external Figure: According to _Ælian_, they change into the Similitude of the Things they light upon. He might, I think, as well have said, they chang’d their _Notes_ on different Trees, since there is a kind of relation between _Musick_ and _Colour_, as the Learned _Newton_ observes. VI. _KOKOB_ Serpent, is between three and four Foot long, of a dusky Colour, and made beautiful by Spots of red and light Blue. Its Wounds are terrible, and the Effects not very dissimilar to those of the _Hemorrhous_. _Nierembergius_ observes, that it resides among Stones; and when it rambles out, and hears any Noise, makes towards it like a mighty Hero. Thus the _Gallic_ Monarch, upon Debates among Princes, marches out as sovereign Umpire of _Europe_, and never returns home but by way of _Lorrain_, _Corsica_, _Palatine_, or _Spanish Flanders_. VII. The _Asp_, so called from the _Asperity_ of its Skin, as _Arnoldus_, or from _aspiciendo_, because of the Acuteness of its Eyes. A Serpent well known, but not accurately describ’d, says the Learned Mr. _Ray_: Some make it a small Serpent, others say ’tis several Feet long; and both may judge right, for according to _Ælian_, there are various Species of Asps; some a Foot and half long, and others six. Among these different Proportions, the least of them is said to be most hurtful, and kills the soonest. Its Poison is so dangerous and quick in its Operation, that it kills almost in the very Instant that it bites, without a Possibility of applying any Remedy: They die within three Hours, says my learned Author[117]; and the manner of their dying by Sleep and Lethargy, without Pain, made _Cleopatra_ chuse it as the easiest way of dispatching herself. (More of this further on.) Footnote 117: _Calmet in Verbum_, p. 213. These Aspick Serpents, are the Growth of several Climates: _Olaus_ observed some of them in the northern Parts, of rugged and rough Skins, ash Colour, sparkling Eyes, three or four Cubits long[118]; tho’ Lovers of warm Situations, yet delight in shady Retirements[119]. Many of them are found in the _Spanish_ Islands[TN]; but _Egypt_, _Libya_, and other Places in _Africa_ claim the greatest Right to them, for there they are most numerous and venemous. Footnote 118: _Jonstonus Hist. de Serp._ p. 15. Footnote 119: Ideo _Seneca_, ad umbram exsurgere dixit.