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cially Hog^s, Racoons, and Crows, Sc.) that the hundredth 

 part never come to perfection. For during the time they 

 are laying, you will see the Hogs and Racoons hunting all 

 along the Water sides till they find their Eggs, which they 

 root out of the Earth, and so devour them ; this is the reason 

 they are not so plenty in this Province as formerly they were, 

 though they are still numerous enough. I have frequently 

 eat of them, which are as delicious a Morsel as ever I tasted, 

 if well dress'd. Their Virtues and Uses are much the same 

 with the Tortoise. 



The Frogs, whereof there are several sorts, but none so 

 remarkable as the Bull-Frogs, so called, from their bellowing 

 like a Bull, which makes Strangers wonder (when by the 

 side of a Marsh) what's the matter, for they hear the Frogs 

 bellow, and can see no Cattle : They are the largest that are 

 knowTi in America, being generally as big as a Rabbet, I have 

 known no Use made of them in Physick. 



The Green Frog, so called from it's Colour, it is one of 

 the smallest sort I ever met with ; these climb up Trees, and 

 sing or make a noise much like the Grass-ho'pper , but much 

 louder. The French eat the hinder Quarters of them. 



The common Land-Frog is like a Toad, only it leaps and 

 is not poysonous. These Frogs are gi'eat devourers of Ants, 

 and the Snakes devour them. These Animals baked and 

 beat to Powder, are taken with Orrice-Yxooi, to cure the 

 Tympany, and many other Disorders. 



There are several other coloured small Frogs in tht^se 

 parts; and what is worthy of Observation is, that they in 

 general liave such variety of l^otes from the S])ring to the 

 Fall, that it is very strange to hear them, representing as it 

 were all the Crys, Calls, and Notes of Beasts and Birds in 

 these Parts. 



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