Identifier: historicalgeogra04wint (find matches)
Title: An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies
Year: 1796 (1790s)
Authors: Winterbotham, William 1763-1829
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York : Printed by Tiebout and O'Brien, for John Reid
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ed to be, thofe of the reptiles muft be muchmore fo; few have been the charafters who, with leilure andabilities, have poffeffed the inclination for thefe refearches,and thofe who have attempted any thing of this kind,have contented themfelves with very partial advances, or havefound fuch difficulties as have prevented any great progrefs ;they have, however, done fufficient, we truft, to ftimulate othersto a farther purfuit, and we may reafonably hope that a few years■will open to us a more particular acquaintance with the woods,the marfhes, the mountains, and waters of the new continent.The following lifts in a more particular manner refer to North-America, though perhaps the greater part are found all over thecontinent. DIV. I. PEDATED REPTILES. TORTOISE. Teftudo, Mydas,. imbricata, Green Tortoife, . IlavvkbiU do. . Loggerhead do. Trunk do. , Soft-(helled do. Serrated do. , Chequered do, , Mud do. Great Land do. called in the United States, Gopher. marina, Raii, Catesby, Carolina,
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OF AMERICAN REPTILES. «c3 Toad, . • Rana, buTo, feveral fpecieSo Bull-frog, » . • ■— ocellata, Water.frog, . . Catesby. Green-tree-frog, , —.——. arborea, Land-frog, . . C&teshy^ Cinerous, , , ■ ■ 3ell-frog . . ■ Small green-frog, , -———• LIZARD. Alligator,* « . Lacerta, crocodylus, Green-li£ard,+ . ^ ■• * This formidable animal has a vaft mouth, furnifhed with (harp teeth ; fromthe back to the end of the tail ferrated ; Ikin tough and brown, and coveredon the fides with tubercles. Grows to the length of from eighteen to twenty-three feet. This dreadful fpecies is found in the warmer parts of North-America, andmoft numerous as we approach the fouth, and the more fierce and ravenous ;yet in Carolina it never devours the human fpecies, but on the contrary, (hunsmankind, yet will kill dogs as they fwim in the rivers, and hogs which feed inthe fwamps. It is often feen floating like a log of wood on the furface of thewater, and is miftaken for fuch by

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