THE FROG. 5? 



Frozen state during winter. 



extremity. This it swallows with so instantaneous 

 a motion that the eye can scarcely follow it : but, 

 when engaged with a small snake or large worm> 

 nothing can appear more awkward and ludicrous, 

 for nature seems to have put a restraint upon the 

 voracity of these animals, by forming them very 

 inaptly for seizing and holding their larger prey. 

 Dr. Townson had a large frog that one day swal- 

 lowed in his presence a worm near a span long, 

 which in its struggles frequently got half its body 

 out again: .when completely swallowed, its con- 

 tortions were very visible in the flaccid sides of 

 its conqueror. UBH: 



Frogs are numerous in the partS'of America 

 about Hudson's Bay, as far north as latitude 

 sixty -one degrees. They frequent there the mar- 

 gins of lakes, ponds, rivers, and swamps, and, as 

 the winter approaches, they burruw under the 

 moss, at a considerable distance from the water, 

 where they remain in a frozen state till spring, 

 Mr. Hearne has frequently seen them dug up 

 with the moss frozen as hard as ice. In this state 

 their legs are as easily broken off as the stem of 

 a tobacco-pipe, without giving them the least 

 sensation ; but by wrapping them up in warm 

 skins, and exposing them to a slow fire, they 

 soon come to life, and the mutilated animals 

 gain their usual activity; if, however, they are 

 permitted to freeze again, they are past all reco- 

 very. 



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