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but it is not often ; and the \x&& frogs 

 are fome of them obferved by him, 

 to breed by laying eggs, and others 

 to breed of the flime and dufh of the 

 earth, and that in winter they turn 

 to flime again, and that the next 

 Summer that very flime returns to 

 be a living creature ; this is the o- 

 /his 1 6* pi 011 of Pliny: and* Cardanus un- 

 iBook, De dertakes to give reafon for the rain- 



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ing or Frogs \ but if it were in my 

 power,it fhould rain none but water 

 Frogs, for thofe I think are not ve* 

 nemous, efpecially the right water 

 Frog , which about February or 

 March breeds in ditches by flime and 

 blackifh eggs in that flime, about 

 which time of breeding the He and 

 She frog are obferved to ufe divers 

 ilmber falts, and to croke and make 

 a noife,which thela.ndfrog,orPadoc& 

 frog never does. Now of the/e water 

 Frogs, you are to chufe the yelloweft 

 that you can get,* for that the Pike 

 ever likes beft. And thus ufe your 



Frog, 



