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Accomil of Frogs found .in the Earlh 



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twenty or twenty five feet deep, the diggers discovered some 



frogs, which appeared to adhere 



to the 



th 



and perfectly stnpified and dead. They threw them out of 

 the well ; and when they were exposed to the heat of the sun, 

 in a short time, they appeared to vivify; and soon became 

 full of life and activity. As they still dug deeper, they dis- 



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covered more of them; which exhibited the same phenome- 

 na. My informant told me, that he was himself a witness 

 to as many as twenty or thirty of them. 



" At about forty feet depth, they came upon a large stump, 

 at the root of which they discovered a fine spring of water. 

 He showed me a piece of the stump : it resembled button 



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iciilar in my inquiry, whether there were 



wood. I 



par 



no avenues, or cavities in the earth, leadin 



or commum' 



eating with 



the 



river 



hav 



through which the frogs might 



passed ? He informed me 



none; 



ance of water. 



nor any appear- 



How long those animals must hav 



re- 



mained there, it is impossible to determine; but in all pro 

 bability, they must have been 



in that inactive state, some 



hundred 



years. From the discovery of the 



Tident, that the land must have been made land 



ump 



is c- 



I conclude 



that in some inundation of the river, those animals must 

 have been covered up ; and there remained ever since." 



but only, from the information 

 question the truth of the a- 



I have nothing to add: 



that I have 



I 



hove account, however extraordinary it appear 



I have the honour to be, 



Your most obedient, and 



very humble serv 



Caleb Gannett, Esq. Recording Bccrdary, &c 



NEIIEMIAH WILLIAMS 



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