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BOAS.
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And easily could he have overtopped
Goliath’s helmed head, or that huge king
Of Basan, hugest of the Anakim:
What then was human strength if once involved
Within those dreadful coils?… The multitude
Fell prone and worshipped.”[1]
The Boadæ are found in the continents and great islands of the torrid zone; the true Boas, distinguished by having the plates beneath the tail arranged in a single series, are confined to the western hemisphere, but the great Serpents
BOA CONSTRICTOR.
exhibited in our menageries, under the loosely-applied term Boa constrictor, are for the most part species of the genus Python, which is found only
- ↑ “Madoc,” book vii.
