So FROG. 



feet } four on the hind, with ftrong claws to each : only the rudiment 

 of a tail. 

 PT.ACE, Inhabits Carolina-: fleeps, like other land Tortoifes, during winter : 



feeds on fnails, tadpoles^ young frogs, and miiflirooms : is an utter 

 enemy to the Rattle Snake ; will feize it below the neck, and, by draw- 

 ing its own head into the fhell, becomes invulnerable : the fnake twines 

 about the Tortoife ; but is foon deftroycd, and left on the ground. 



8. MUB. Mud Tortoife, £^/w. 287. — i^'w/«» 133. 



^ With a blunt head: flat fmooth fliell, divided into thirteen 

 dufky fegments, furrounded with a rim of others : the fternum co- 

 vering almoft the whole belly : five toes on the fore feet, four on the 

 hind, webbed, and furnifhed with claws : tail flender, with a hard 

 horny point. 

 PLACE. Inhabits Penfylvania and Carolina. Law/on praifes it as an excel- 



lent food, efpecially in May and June. Their eggs are alfo very good, 

 but they are the prey of fo many animals, that few arrive at per- 

 feftion, 



II. F R O G. ^ Br. Zool. III. 9. Genus IT. 



5. CViL. Rana ocellata, Lin. 356. 



Eull Frog, Lan.v/an, 132. — Catefiy/u. 72. — Kalni. 'li. tyo. 



T^R. With dufky red irides, furrounded v/ith a yellow ring: the 

 auricles covered with a thin circular flcin, forming a fpot behind 

 each eye : four toes on the fore feet : five palraated toes behind. It 

 grows fo large, fays Law/on, that I have feen one with as much meat on 

 it as a pullet. Color of a dufky brown mixed with yellowifh green, and 

 ipotted with black : the belly yellowllh white, faintly fpotted. 

 PiAGE. Sit in pairs, at the fprings of fmall rills; are fuppofed by the people 



of Virginia to be the purifiers of waters, and refpefted as the genii of the 

 fountains. If furprized, leap into the mouth of the fpring, and lie fecure. 



During 



