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 174 snub-nosed, either because in the tender years of infancy their nostrils are pressed down, and con- tinue to be so throughout their after-life, or because such is the natural shape of the organ. Serpents of enormous size are bred in their country, of which some kinds seize the cattle when at pasture and devour them, while other kinds only suck the blood, as do the Aigithelai in Greece, of which I have already spoken in the proper place. but very fleet, who cannot be exterminated, are brave men, and cannibals." (Schwanbeck, p. 66.) [Lassen places one branch of them on the south bank of the Eansi in Nipfil, and another in Tiperl— Ed. Iwd. Anf]