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[Keira Kensington]

170:† Ibid., Book viii., chap. xiii.

170:‡ Ibid., Book viii., chap. xiv.

171:* "At the present day the longest Italian serpents are the Æsculapian serpent (a harmless animal) and the Colubes quadrilineatus, neither of which exceeds ten feet in length."—Nat. Hist., Book viii., chap. xiv.