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 Serpents; and was quickly convinced, by their leaving the Country without doing any Hurt, that they had no Quality, but the Colour, in common with the Ravagers here deſcribed.

As I am not able to determine any Thing on this Queſtion, I ſhall content myſelf with collecting, into one View, the ſeveral Properties of this peſtiferous Brood, with which we are threatened, as Hints to more ſagacious and fortunate Readers; who when they ſhall find any Red Animal that ranges uncontrouled over the Country, and devours the Labours of the Trader and the Huſbandman; that carries with it Corruption, Rapine, Pollution, and Devaſtation; that threatens without Courage, robs without Fear, and is pampered without Labour; they may know that the Prediction is completed. Let me only remark farther, that if the Stile of this, as of all other Predictions, is figurative, the Serpent, a wretched Animal that crawls upon the Earth, is a proper Emblem of low Views and ſelf-intereſt baſe