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74 TRAVELS IN UPPER
pass with the common people for the tongues and
eyes of serpents, though assuredly there is no
great resemblance between them : these are, in
iheir apprehension, authentic and irresistible evi-
dence of the miraculous service which St. Paul
rendered to their island, by destroying all the
serpents. But this is not the only instance to
prove that, under the hand of ignorance, the
history of nature has become that of superstition.
pass with the common people for the tongues and
eyes of serpents, though assuredly there is no
great resemblance between them : these are, in
iheir apprehension, authentic and irresistible evi-
dence of the miraculous service which St. Paul
rendered to their island, by destroying all the
serpents. But this is not the only instance to
prove that, under the hand of ignorance, the
history of nature has become that of superstition.