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" long firings, like a necklace, many yards long, 

 " not in a large qaantity of jelly, like frogs fpawn. 

 " N. B. After having held a female fome time in 

 " my hand, I have, to try if there was any fmell, 

 " put my finger a foot under water to a male, 

 " who has immediately feized it, and (luck to it as 

 " firmly as if it was a female, ^ue're, Would they 

 " feize a finger or rag that had touched a can- 

 " cerous ulcer ? 



" Sixthly, 



** of being delivered of them without fome affiftance. The 

 " fecond was, that the male was mounted on the back of 

 " the female, and exerted all his ftrength with his hinder 

 " feet in pulling out the eggs, whilH his fore-feet embraced 

 " her breaft. 



" In order to apprehend the manner of his working in the 

 " delivery of the female, the reader muil obferve, that the 

 " paws of thefe animals, as well thofe of the fore-feet as of 

 ** the hinder, are divided into feveral toes, which can per- 

 " form the office of fingers. 



" It muil be femarked likewife, that the eggs of this fpe- 

 '* cies of toads are included each in a membranous coat that 

 " is very firm, in which is contained the embryo ; and that 

 " thefe eggs, which are oblong and about two lines in 

 " length, being fattened one to another by a ihort but very 

 H ftrong cord, form a kind of chaplet, the beads of which 

 " are dillant from each other about the half of their length. 

 " It is by drawing this cord with his paw that the male 

 '* performs the function of a midwife, and acquits himfelf 

 " in it with a dexterity that one would not expect from fo 

 " lumpilh an animal. 



" The prefence of the obferver did not a little difcompofe 

 "the male ; for fome time he Hopped ihort, and threw on 



" the 



