Codex canadensis, p. 66 - Public domain dedication image

Français : Codex canadensis, p. 66
Petit serpent tres venimeux qui tue sur / le cham ceux quil mort 1 grand serpent a sonette / qui a trois brasses de long sil pique un personne dans les 24 / heures elle devient fort enfle et si on sait le secret pour eviter / le venin Il ne faut que senterrer durand vingt quatre heures / par la playe blessée on ne sent poin de mal autrement Il faut mourir sans remede2 figure de Languille dont dans la colonie francoise on / en prend plus de cinquante mille bariques dans trois mois / tous les ans
English: Small, very poisonous snake that kills immediately those that it bites. 1 Large rattlesnake, which is three fathoms long. If it bites someone, within twenty-four hours the person becomes very swollen. If one knows the secret to avoid the venom — one simply buries the injured part of the body for twenty- four hours — one does not feel any pain. Otherwise one is sure to die. 2 Picture of the eel. In the French colony, more than fifty thousand barrels of them are caught in three months every year.