Note i — BOOK IV. (continued 2)

A Knight call’d Corvini at Rome, cast a Salamander into the Fire, which presently swell’d, and then vomited Store of thick slimy Matter, which put out the Coals; to which the Salamander presently retir’d, putting them out again in the same Manner, as soon as they re-kindled, and by this Means sav’d it self from the Force of the Fire for the Space of two Hours: After which it liv’d nine Months. Vid. Philos. Transact. Nᵒ. 21. in Lowth. Abridg. Vol. 2. p. 816.