of producing its Youitg, ^g 



•Dr. RuiscH, and Mr. Seba of Amfter- 

 dam, and has obferved it in three different 

 States. In the firft, the Pores of the Back 

 Skin were all clofcd; excepting three or four, 

 which began to be forced open by the Eggs 

 lodged in Cells below them. In the fecond 

 State, all the Pores in the Skin of the Back 

 were fo much opened, that he could plainly 

 difcern the Points of the Eggs within them. 

 And in the third, (which he gives a Pidure 

 of) young Ones were perfedly formed in all 

 the Cells of the Back f . 



I have had the Pleafure, Sir, on this 

 Occaiion, to examine, in your Company, 

 one of thefe Animals, which is very well 

 preferved in Spirits, in the Repofitory of the 

 Royal Society, and was given by his Grace the 

 Duke of Richmond. — It much rcfembles 

 a very large Toad, being of the fame Co- 

 lour, and having little Protuberances like 

 Pins Heads fcattered over its Skin in the 

 Manner our Toads have : but the Form of 

 its Head differs from thofe of Europe. On 

 its Back, reaching from near the Shoulders 

 to within a little of the Anus, are about two 

 hundred circular Appearances, like dry dead 

 flat Scabs, about half the Breadth of a Silver 

 Penny, difpofed near one another in a fome- 



f Vide Bradley's Works of Nature, p. 126/ 



what 



