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THE principal and mot remarkable of the reptiles and inects in Dominica are, nakes, lizards, wood-laves, guanas, frogs, grugru worms, borer worms, centipedes, corpions, piders, awyer flies, blackmith flies, loggerhead flies, Spaniard flies, freemaon flies, the wood-hore, and vegetable flies.

Some of the nakes are mall, and others very large and thick. Of the lat ort is that called by the French, "Tête du chien," or Dog's-head nake, from its head, which much reembles that of a dog. Some have been caught in this iland that meaured upwards of twelve feet in length, and as thick as a man's leg. They have long, harp teeth; their kins