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numbers from a panic that is carried to a degree of 

 infelicity, and alfo to redeem it from a perfecution 

 which the unmerited ill-opinion the world has con- 

 ceived, perpetually expofes it to. 



The gentlemen I am principally indebted to for 

 my informations are J. Arfcott, Efq; of 'Tebott, in 

 Dewnfhire> and Mr. Pitfield, of Exeter. Some of 

 thefe accounts were addrefTed to Doctor Milles> 

 Dean of Exeter ; others to the worthy Prelate 

 above-mentioned, to whom I owe thefe and many 

 other agreeable correfpondencies 5 others again to 

 myfelf. 



Mr. Arfcotfs letters give a very ample hiflory of 

 the nature of the toad : they were both addrefTed 

 to Doctor Milles, and both were the refult of cer- 

 tain queries I propofed, which the former was fo 

 obliging as to give himfelf the trouble of anfwering 

 in a mod fatisfaclory manner. 



I mail firft take the liberty of citing Mr. ArfcMt\ 

 Jetter of September the 23d, 1768, which mentions 

 fome very curious particulars of this innocent rep- 

 tile, which, for fuch a number of years, found an 

 afylum from the good fenfe of a family which foar- 

 ed above all vulgar prejudices. 



" It would give me the greater!: pleafure to be 

 ?< able to inform you of any particulars worthy Mr. 

 " Pennant's notice, concerning the toad who lived 

 " fo many years with us, and was fo great a favo- 

 <ft rite. The greateft curiofity in it was its becom- 

 V ing fo remarkably tame. It had frequented fome 



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