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whom I owe these and many other agreeable 

 correspondencies ; others again to myself. 



Mr. Arscottfs letters give a very ample his- 

 tory of the nature of the toad : they were both 

 addressed to Doctor Milles, and both were the 

 result of certain queries I proposed, which the 

 former was so obliging as to give himself the 

 trouble of answering in a most satisfactory 

 manner. 



I shall first take the liberty of citing Mr. Ars- 

 cott's letter of September the 23d, 1768, which 

 mentions some very curious particulars of this 

 innocent reptile, which, for such a number of 

 years, found an asylum from the good sense of 

 a family which soared above all vulgar pre- 

 judices. 



" It would give me the greatest pleasure to 

 " be able to inform you of any particulars wor- 

 " thy Mr. Peimant's notice, concerning the toad 

 " who lived so many years with us, and was so 

 " great a favorite. The greatest curiosity in it 

 " was its becoming so remarkably tame. It 

 '* had frequented some steps before the hall- 

 " door son^e years before my acquaintance com- 

 " menced with it, and had been admired by 

 " my father for its size (which was of the 

 " largest I ever met with) who constantly payed 

 " it a visit every evening. I knew it myself 

 " above thirty years, and by constantly feed- 



