BOA CONSTRICTOR.

Jerome speaks of “a dragon of wonderful magnitude, which the Dalmatians

in their native language call _boas_, because they are so large that

they can swallow oxen.” Hence it should seem, that the _boa_-snake may

have given birth to the fiction of dragons.[140]

[140] Fosbroke’s British Monachism.

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~Varia.~

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