A traveller taken and confined by robbers, - Strange detection, and just punishment of a murderer of Remarkable account of two Quakers who escaped from - A wonderful providence, or a supernatural interference, Of a man who had a view of heaven and hell, THE WONDERS OF NATURE, &c. OF SERPENTS. Extracted from the celebrated Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible. The following account may be relied on as truth. Calmet being well known to the literary world as a judicious writer of natural history. It may be remarked, that the account here given of Dragons and those large and fearful Serpents which inhabit the mountains, low lands, and seas of the Indies, Africa, &c. remarkably illustrate many passages found in the writings of the Holy Scriptures, where those monsters are alluded by way to of comparison. THE DRAGON, SEA SERPENTS, AND FLYING SERPENTS. It appears, from several places in this work, that if we have T not annihilated those numerous dragons which occur in our public translation, yet we have changed them for creatures of very different kinds; it is therefore, in some degree, incumbent on us to clear up, so far as our information reaches, the true creature which Scripture intends by the term dragon: and that we may be certain of our instance on this subject, we select that of the great red dragon of the Revelations, which also is expressly called a serpent. Chap. xii. 3. "Behold, 1st, a great, 2dly, a red dragon, Spaxav, having 3dly, seven heads, and 4thly, ten horns, his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, the dragon stood before the woman to devour her child, and the ⚫s, serpent cast out of his mouth water as a stream [flood] after the woman, that he might cause her to be knocked down, carried away, by the stream of water." The description and manners of this dragon have greatly embarrassed commentators. Dr. Doddridge observes on the passage," I suppose most of my readers well know, that a dragon is a vast serpent of enormous |