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| Horned Battle Snake. "Mr. William H. Thomas, of Qualla Town Haywood Co., N. C.) writes to the Asheville News that a Cherokee Indian, named Salola, captured a snake on the Smoky Mountain,which he describes “of the usual size of Diamond Rattle Snakes found in the mountains of this country, of a dark color—on its tail it has ten rattles, on its head two forked horns of about three fourths of an inch long.” The Indians said it seemed to be a king among snakes of its species. Nothing of the kind has been seen heretofore by any of the oldest white inhabitants." From Scientific American, Vol. 8, Issue
4, October 9, 1852, p. 418. |