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" Sixthly, Infects being their food, I never faw 

 '* any toad mew any liking or diflike to any plant*. 



" Seventhly, I hardly remember any perfons ta- 

 " king it up except my father and myfelf : I do 

 " not know whether it had any particular attach- 

 " ment to us. 



" Eighthly, In refpect to its end, I anfwer this 

 u laft qucre. Had it not been for a tame raven, I 

 " make no doubt but it would have been now liv- 

 " ing; who one day feeing it at the mouth of its 

 " hole, pulled it out, and although I refcued ir, 

 " pulled out one eye, and hurt it fo, that notwith- 

 *? {landing its living a twelvemonth it never enjoyed 



" itfflfi 



" the curious impertinent a fixed look that marked his dif- 



" quietnefs and fear; but he foon returned to his work with 



" more precipitation than before, and a moment after he 



" appeared undetermined whether he mould continue it or 



" not. The female likewife difcovered her uneafinefs at the 



«* fight of the ftranger, by motions that interrupted fome- 



** times the male in his operation. At length, whether the 



" filence and Heady poflure of the fpeclator had dimpated 



" their fear, or that the cafe was urgent, the male relumed 



" his work with the fame vigour, and fuccefsfully performed 



" his function." 



* This quellion arofe from an afTertion of Litmaus, that 

 the toad delighted in filthy herbs. Deled at ur Cotula, Aclaa, 

 Stachyde fcetidi. The unhappy deformity of the animal 

 feems to be the only ground of this as well as another mifre- 

 prefentation, of its conveying a poifon with its pimples, its 

 touch, and even its breath. Verruca laclefcentes venenata 

 infufc tacitly anhelitu, 



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