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
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 … long Of the Goat. 181 long as the body Deing levered from the skin : the latitude or breadth thereof in the middle, wasabout one fpan in breadth, the middle of the belly, and the upper part of the neck, were afh colour-ed, and in the tail were eight black circles and fo many white, one fucceffively…
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