THE DRAGON .WELL. By PH. BALDENSPERGER, Esq. DR. C. SCIIIClC'Spaper on "The Dragon W ell/' in the October, 1898, number' of the Quarterly Statement, speaks of the great nun1bers of "black and long worms" in the Birket es Sultan. .In fact, the gigantic millipede-Jul'l£s gilognatha-abounds about the rocks of the lower pool of Gihon; and the particularity of these' Julida; consists in rolling themsel yes up as soon as touched. The smaller species, " Glo'm.eris," rolls into a ball, while this one simply forms a spiral, with the head inner- nlOst. On account of this striking feature it is called" Moses' Rod,'.: ", .,- l".5 •••••)~-c ~l:.=, 'Assaat l\1.usa, by the Palestine natives, in memory of the nliracle performed at the Court of Pharaoh-as it suddenly unfurls and continues to creep, as did the serpent transformed befure the Egyptian king. Moses' rod amI serpent are, or may have been, identical among the Israelites of old, and perhaps the name " 1\10ses'Rod" was given by them to the nlillipede, and also to the well, for the san1e reason. About 600 yards from the Birket es Sultan, lower down on the right side of the En-Rogel road, is a small cistern, to which we boys, thirty years ago, gaye the name of Serpents' Well-,simply because serpents lived in it. 1\10re than once did I bring out a Hanish, ~>-, which is a black coluber, the longest serpent in Palestine, attaining often three metres or nlOre-supposed by the majority of people to be...