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"Asleep or awake?" Tom asked himself, as the reptile lay perfectly motionless, with its curiously-marked eyes seeming dull, and as if formed of the same material as the scales. The lad drew his hand back, for there was something repellent about the little object, and he knew at once that this was a dangerous little viper.
The doctor contributed an Alligator, some two feet six inches long; another officer, a curiously-marked Ant-eater of a species unknown to me. It was common, he said, in the Isthmus of Panama; and seemed the most foolish and helpless of beasts.
North America, 1798. When in full bloom this is a remarkable and highly ornamental tree, the curiously-marked flowers and unusually large, bronzy-tinted foliage being distinct from those of almost any other in cultivation.
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