APPENDIX. 383 



Tehott, Nov, I, 1768. 



" In refped to the queries, I Oiall here give the 

 *' mofl: fatisfadlory anfvvers I am capable of. 



" Firft, I cannot fay how long my father had 

 *' been acquainted with the toad before I knew it ; 

 " but when I firft was acquainted with it, he ufed 

 " to mention it as the old toad Fve known fo many 

 " years j I can anfwer for thirty-fix years. 



" Secondly, No toads that I ever faw appear- 

 " ed in the winter fcafon. The old toad made 

 " its appearance as foon as the warm weather came, 

 " and I always concluded it retired to fome dry 

 " bank to repofe till the fpring. When we new- 

 " lay'd the iteps I had two holes made in the 

 *' third flep on each, with a hollow of more than a 

 ^ yard long for it, in which I imagine it flept, as 

 " it came from thence at its firft appearance. 



" Thirdly, It was feldom provoked : neither 

 " that toad (nor ^he multitudes I have feen tor- 

 " mented with great cruelty) ever fhswed the left 

 " defire of revenge, by fpitting or emitting any 

 "juice from their pimples. Sometimes upon tak- 

 " ing it up it would let out a great quantity of clear 

 " water, which, as I have often feen it do the fame 

 " upon the fteps when quite quiet, was certainly its 

 " urine, and no more than a natural evacuation. 



" Fourthly, A toad has no particular enmity 

 '' for the fpider; he ufed to eat five or fix with his 

 " millepedes (which I take to be its chief food) that 

 [[ I generally provided for it, before I found out 



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