3i6 "The Wisdom of GOD Part If. 



vouring to prove by Force of Argument that there 

 is no fuch thing, I have lately received from my 

 learned and ingenious Friend Mr. William Der- 

 ham^ Reftor of Upminjler, near Rumford in EJfex^ 

 a Relation parallel to that oi FromonduSy concern- 

 ing the fudden Appearance of a vaft Number of 

 Frogs, after a Shower or two of Rain, marching 

 crofs a fandy Way, that before the Rain was very 

 dufty, and giving an Account where, in all like- 

 lihood, they were generated by Animal Parents 

 of their own Kind, and whence they did proceed. 

 The whole Narrative I (hall give the Reader in 

 his own Words. 



Some Tears ago^ as I was riding forth one After- 

 noon in Berks, / happened upon a prodigious Multi- 

 tude creeping crofs the Way ; // was a fandy Soil, 

 a?2d the Way had been full of Duji^ by reafon of a 

 dry Seafon that then was ; but an Hour or two be- 

 fore a refrefnng fragrant Shower or two of Rain 

 had laid the Dujt ; whereupon what I had heard or 

 read of the rainifig of Frogs, immediately came to 

 my Thoughts, as it eafily might do, there being pro- 

 bably as good reafon then for me, as I believe any 

 ever bad before, to conclude that thefe came from the 

 Clouds, or were iizftantaneoufly generated \ but being 

 prepofefsd with the contrary Opinion, v\z, that 

 there was no equivocal Generation, I was very cu- 

 rious in enquiring whence this vaji Colony might pro- 

 bably come ; and upon fe arching I found two or three 

 Acres of hand cover d with this black Regiment, 

 and that they a'l march' d the fame way towards 



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