"Nous avons encore un sermon du Pape Innocent III., compose en cette occasion, an commencement du treizieme siecle. Le Pape Nicholas IV., en 1290, dans le denombrement qu'il fait des eglises qui doivent des redevances a l'eglise de Rome, met le monastere de Sainte Croix, diocese de Basle, qui doit deux onces d'or pour la Rose d'Or, qui se benit au Dimanche Laetere, Jerusalem." P. P. P. * * * * * NOTES ON SERPENTS. (Vol. ii., p. 130.; Vol. vi., p. 177.--Vol. iii., p. 490.; Vol. vi., pp. 42. 147.) Loskiel, in his account of the Moravian missions to the North American Indians[5], tells us that,-- "The Indians are remarkably skilled in curing the bite of venomous serpents, and have found a medicine peculiarly adapted to the bite of each species. For example, the leaf of the Rattlesnake-root (_Polygala senega_) is the most efficacious remedy against the bite of this dreadful animal. God has mercifully granted it to grow in the greatest plenty in all parts most infested by the rattlesnake. It is very remarkable that this herb acquires its greatest perfection just at the time when the bite of these serpents is the most dangerous.... Virginian Snake-root (_Aristolochia serpentaria_) chewed, makes also an excellent poultice for wounds of this sort.... The fat of the serpent itself, rubbed into the wound, is thought to be efficacious. The flesh of the rattlesnake, dried and boiled to a broth, is said to be more nourishing than that of the viper, and of service in consumptions. Their gall is likewise used as medicine."--P. 146. Pigs are excepted from the dreadful effects of their bite; they will even attack and eat them. It is said that, _if a rattlesnake is irritated and cannot be revenged, it bites itself, and dies in a few hours_: "Wird dieses Thier zornig gemacht, und es kann sich nicht raechen, so beiszt es sich selbst, und in wenig Stunden ist es todt."--P. 113.[6] "I have seen some of our Canadians eat these rattlesnakes repeatedly. The flesh is very white, and they assured me had a delicious taste. Their manner of dressing them is very simple.... Great caution, however, is required in killing a snake for eating; for if the first blow fails, or only partially stuns him, _he instantly bites himself in different parts of the body, which thereby become poisoned_, and would prove fatal to any person who should partake of it."--Cox's _Adv. on the Columbia River_: Lond. 1832, p. 74. "Dr. Fordyce knew the black servant of an Indian merchant in America, who was fond of soup made of rattlesnakes, in which he always boiled the head along with the rest of the animal, without any regard to the poisons."--Rees's _Cyclopaedia_.