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" they come within reach, when it fprings on 

 themV* ' 



The Hilling frog grows to a large fize, fome be- 

 ing between four and five feet in length •, and we 

 have heard of one taken near Scarborough^ whofe 

 mouth was a yard wide. The fifhermen on that 

 coall: have a great regard for this fifli, from a fup- 

 pofition that it is a great enemy to the dog fifli f , 

 and whenever they take it with their lines fet it at 

 liberty. 



It is a fiHi of very great deformity : the head 

 is much bigger than the whole body, is round at 

 the circumference, and fiat above : the mouth of a 

 prodigious v/idenefs. 



The under jaw is much longer than the upper : 

 the ja7/s are full of (lender Iharp teeth : in the roof 

 of the mouth are tv;o or three rows of the fame ; 

 at the root of the tongue, oppofite each other, are 

 two bones of an elliptical form, thick kt^ with 

 very (Irong fharp teeth. 



The noftrils do not appear externally, but in 

 the upper part of the mouth awe two large orifices 

 that ferve inftead of them. 



* Cicero, in his fecond book De Natura Dsoni?n, gives 

 Dduch the fame account of this fiih : Ran^ autem marhice di- 

 cuntur obruere fefs arena folere, et mo^veri prope aquamy ad 

 quas, quaji ad efcam, pifces cum accejjerint, conjici a ranis ^ at- 

 que confumi. 



t The bodies of thefe fierce and voracious fifli are often 

 ibund in the ftomach of the Fijhing Frog, 



Descrip, 



