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Rh And easily could he have overtopped Goliath’s helmed head, or that huge king Of Basan, hugest of the Anakim: What then was human strength if once involved Within those dreadful coils?… The multitude Fell prone and worshipped.”

The Boadæ are found in the continents and great islands of the torrid zone; the true Boas, distinguished by having the plates beneath the tail arranged in a single series, are confined to the western hemisphere, but the great Serpents

exhibited in our menageries, under the loosely-applied term Boa constrictor, are for the most part species of the genus Python, which is found only