S28 ObfflrveU'tons on Living Animals 



toad was found in an oak by Seigne in 1731, and another in, 



a hard flone, at Ecrctleville, by Le Prince in 1756*. 



A great many particulars relating to this fubjecl have been 

 collected bv Guettard. A common toad, two of whofe feet 

 were free, and the other two (licking faft in gypfuni, fo tlxat 

 it was impoffible to dil'engage them without tearing them to 

 pieces, was lent to him by order of the Duke of Orleans. 

 Count Hermann II, of TIatzfeld, told Dr. Sachien f that he 

 heard a living frog croak in the middle of a (lone at h'u 

 palace of Schellenbergj near Cologne, and that the animal 

 hopped oul on the flone buriling of ilfclf. I (hall now give 

 oilier infianccs, of which GuctLard makes no mention. 

 Tn the year 1733 a living toad was found by J. M. Gr'a- 

 berg in a (olid hard block of ("tone, dug up from a quarry in 

 the pari(h of Wamblingcbo, in (Gothland, and which he 

 caufed to be broken by the workmen. The colour of the 

 animal was blackilh grey, a little fpotted on the back, and 

 fomewhat fainter on the belly. Its eyes were fmall and 

 round, and covered by a tender fkin or film, under which 

 they feemed to fparkk a little with a colour like that of pale 

 Cold. Having touched it on the head with a (lick, it con- 

 traeled its eves as if it had been aileep : as foon as the 

 flick was removed, it gradually opened them; but moved 

 neither its body nor feet in the lead, though he touched it 

 different times. He remarked alfo that the mouth had no 

 aperture. It was covered with a vellowifh fkin, which he 

 examined alfo with the (lick, but he was not able to make it 



* Inflances of the like kind may tie found in the following works; 

 tfaller df. carp-bum. fabr.ct fiincl: vol. vii. p. 157; Avani I'oureur, ij 

 Sept. r76fs Cbr. Franc. Paullini in Btufone, c. -$.Jefl.\. p. 35; Cbrr/i. 

 /;. Gamiann in Oolog. curr. difi. ii. p. 145. §120; Uicrmberg. HijL 

 flat. lib. vi. c. 1 5 ; D. tiiufcbins dc Acii/r, p. 74; Eufiri. Cbrifi. Fran- 

 lens JJiflorit der Grafscbafi Manmfilil, Leip. 1713. vol. i. ch. 5; Lcjfcrs 

 Litbotbeohgie, Hamburg!) 17-1.8. p. 101 and 112. 



+ Memoires furdiffcrens patties des Sciences tt des Arts. Paris 1783.4. 

 .vol. iv. p. 615. 



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