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him ; and I continued to think fo till fome 

 hours after, when I talked with fome Swedes 

 about the Bui/frogs, and, by their account, 

 J immediately found that I had heard their 

 voice ; for the Swedes told me, that there 

 were numbers of them in the dyke, I af- 

 terwards hunted for them. Of all the frogs 

 in this country, this is doubtlefs the great- 

 eft. I am told, that towards autumn, as 

 foon as the air begins to grow a little cool, 

 they hide themfelves under the mud, which 

 lies at the bottom of ponds and ftagnant 

 waters, and ly there torpid during winter. 

 As foon as the weather grows mild, towards 

 fummer, they begin to get out of their 

 holes, and croak. If the fpring, that is, 

 if the mild weather, begins early, they 

 appear about the end of March, old ftile ; 

 but if it happens late, they tarry under wa- 

 ter till late in April. Their places of abode 

 are po ads, and bogs with ftagnant water ; 

 they are never in any flowing water. When 

 many of them croak together, they make 

 an enormous noife. Their croak exactly 

 refembles the roaring of an ox or bull, 

 which is fome what hoarie. They croak fo 

 loud, that two people talking by the fide of 

 a pond cannot underftand each other. They 

 croak all together; then ftop a little, and 

 fcegin again. It feems as if they had a cap- 

 tain 



