The history of four-footed beasts and serpents. (1658)
Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?, Gessner, Conrad, 1516-1565, Moffett, Thomas, 1553-1604, Rowland, John, M.D · London, Printed by E. Cotes, for G. Sawbridge [etc.] · leaf 195
3ffa 03 fcfijd moil 180 The Hifiory of Four-footed Tieafts. dance of fpots, their natural and uniform order, their fhining fplendor and brightnefs, giveplace to no other party-coloured beaft, as you-may obferve in the true figure thereof heredeclared. … Of the skin. In the next place I have thought good to exprefs the figure of the skin taken off, which skin,from the head to the top of the tail, was about four fpans and one palm long, and the tail was as
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