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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22098, 31 October 1933, Page 16

If one wants to see snakes, he is adTised to go to the clay-mining district north of Corfe Castle, in Dorsetshire. If there is a snakes’ paradise in Britain, this is the place. There are six species of British reptiles, and representatives of all of them, including the rare smooth enake and sand lizard may be seen here. The other four species are the adder, the grass snake, the slow worm, and the common lizard. The adder is the only one of these reptiles that is poisonous and ite bite is rarely fatal, though, naturally, medical attention should be obtained as quickly as possible if one is bitten. But it is not often that anyone is bitten, and this snake has been described as “dangerous only to toy 4ogs, stupid babies, and invalids.”