found inclofed in Stones, &c. 229 



open it. Having at lad preTed it on the back, a little clear 

 water iflucd from it behind, upon which it immediately 

 died*. Don Antonio de LTUoa, who with Condamiue, 

 Bouguer and Godin, was employed in meaturing a degree of 

 the meridian in Peru, faw at Madrid two worms which had 

 been found in the middle of a block of marble by the king 

 of Spain's ftatuary. Miflbn, in his Travels through Italy, 

 fpeaks of a living crab found in a piece of marble near Ti- 

 voli. M. Peyfonnel, phyfioian to the king of France, hav- 

 ing employed fome workmen to dig a v. ell near his houfe in 

 Guadaloupe, they found living frogs am id ft the ftrata of the 

 rock. [4is curiofity being excited by this cireumfiance, he 

 defcended into the well himfelf, bored into the rock, and 

 brought up alive fome green frogs, which had a perfect re- 

 femblance to the common ones. 



In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1755 mention is made 

 of a living toad found in a block of marble, at an old cattle 

 belonging to LordTankervillc, twelve miles north-weft from 

 Alnwick f. T. Whiftqn relates, that in the year 1743 a 

 ftone-cutter named Charlton found near Wiibich, in the 

 Ifle of Elv, a living toad inclofed in a piece of marble %. 

 Being called to the fpot, he law the animal, and the cavity in 

 which it was contained. The latter was fomewhat larger 

 than the toad, and had almoft the fame figure. The animal 

 was of a dark yellow colour ; and the folid marble, which in- 

 clofed it on all fides, was feveral inches thick. It feemed to 

 be quite health}', and by its long confinement had not be- 

 come meagre. John Malpas alio, in the year 1755, found 

 a living toad inclofed in a piece of free-fione at Great Yar- 

 mouth §. The hole in which it lay was fix inches diftant 

 from the corner of the iione. He took it out with a pair of 



' Kr.n^l. Swenfka Yettnfkaps Acailcmiens handlingar for iir 1741. 

 p. 24S. 



-j- Gentleman's Magazine, 1756, p. 74. 



X Ibii!. May 1756, p. 740. 



5 Sec Gentleman'; Magazine, loc. dr. 



Q 3 compailes, 



