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" long firings, like a necklace, many yards long, 

 " not in a large quantity of jelly, like frogs fpawn.' 

 " N. B. After having held a female feme time in' 

 "my hand, I have, to try if there was any fmell, 

 " put my finger a foot under water to a male, 

 " who has immediately feized it, and ftuck to it as 

 " firmly as if it was a female, ^^ere. Would they 

 " feize a finger or rag that had touched a can- 

 " cerous ulcer ? 



« Sixthly, 



** of being delivered of them without feme affiftance. The 

 ** fecoyid was, that the male was mounted on the back of 

 ** the female, and exerted all his ftrength with his hinder 

 ** itt\ in pulling out the eggs, whilft his fore-feet embraced 

 ' ** her breafl. 



** In order to apprehend the manner of his working in the 

 " delivery of the female, the reader mufi obferve, that the 

 ** paws of thefe animals, as well thofe of the fore-feet as of 

 *« the hinder, are divided into feveral toes, which can per= 

 ** form the office of fingers. 



*' It mu ft be remarked likewife, that the eggs of this fpe- 

 '* cies of toads are included each in a membranous coat that 

 •' is very firm, in which is contained the embryo j and that 

 ** thefe eggs, which are oblong and about two lines in 

 ** length, being faftened one to another by a fhort but very 

 ** ilrong cord, form a kind of chaplet, the beads of which 

 ** are diftant from each other about the half of their length. 

 '* It is by drawing this cord with his paw that the male 

 *' performs the function of a midwife, and acquits himfelf 

 ** in it with a dexterity that one wcrCild not expect from fo 

 " lumpifh an animal. 



** The prefence of the obferver did not a little difcompofe 

 ** the male ; for fome time he Hopped ihort, and threw on 



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