APPENDIX. 



No. I. 



ON THE TOAD. P. 22. 



oINCE the printing of that article I have 

 been favored with some very curious accounts 

 of this reptile, which will give greater light into 

 its natural history than I am capable of, from 

 a most unphilosophical but invincible aversion 

 to the whole genus. The facts that will appear 

 in the following lines, will serve to confirm my 

 opinion of its being an innoxious animal, and, 

 I hope, will serve to free numbers from a panic 

 that is carried to a degree of infelicity, and also 

 to redeem it from a persecution which the un- 

 merited ill-opinion the world has conceived, 

 perpetually exposes it to. 



The gentlemen I am principally indebted to 

 for my informations are J. Arscott, esq; of 

 Tehott, in Devonshire, and Mr. Pitfield, of 

 Exeter. Some of these accounts were address- 

 ed to Doctor Milks, Dean of Exeter ; others 

 to the worthy Prelate, the bishop of Carlisle, to 



