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liave been a mistake. We *can hardly suppose a N. W. wind, 

 coming from the N. W. corner of this .continent^ without 

 altering its course, to be the cause; if so, why arc not the 

 N. E. wihds in Europe and Asia, in the same latitudes, as 

 cold ? — But we find they are not. 



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IV. An Account of Frogs found in the Earth; in a Letter to 



the Reverend Neiiemiah Williams, l^ Major ^ SAMUEL 



HITCHCOCK. 



Brlnificld, August 5, 1789. 



SIR, 



HE following extract of a, letter was written me some 

 time since, by Major Samuel Hitchcock; but by mis- 

 take, is but just come to hand. The letter was dated at 

 Manchester, Vermont, November 27th, 1788. The ac- 

 count, contained in this letter, has since been confirmed to 

 me by another gentleman, with this alteration, that the house 

 must be as much as forty or fifty rods from the river. 



"I leave this place, for Burlington on Onion river, in 

 three or four days, where I expect to reside in future. It 

 is handsomely situated on Lake Champlain, and on a very 

 pleasant river. I was informed by a gentleman in that town, 

 of a curiosity, which I cannot forbear mentioning to you. 



«A gentleman of undoubted veracity, who lives about 

 twelve or fifteen, rods from the river side, informed me, that 

 he had lately t)een digging a well hy his house, about the 

 same distance from the river. The house is situated on a 

 little eminence, or rise, that overlooks the river and interval 

 adjoining it; which, previous to his clearing it, was covered 

 with a large growth of timber. The stumps appear to be 

 two feet, two and an half, and three feet thick. At about 



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