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city, and alfo to redeem it from a 
perfecution which the unmerited ill- 
opinion the world has conceived, 
perpetually expofes it to. 
The gentlemen I am principally 
indebted.to for my informations are 
F. Arfeott, Efg,; of Tehott, in De- 
vonfoire, and Mr. Pitfield, of Exe- 
ter. Some of thefe accounts were 
addreffed to Doctor Milles, Dean 
_of Exeter; others to the worthy 
Prelate abovementioned, to whom 
IT owe thefe and many other agree- 
able correfpondencies ; others again 
to myfelf. 
Mr. Ar/cott’s letters give a very 
ample hiftory of the nature of the 
toad: they were both addreffed to 
Doétor Milles, and both were the 
refult of certain queries I propofed, 
which the former was fo obliging 
as to give himfelf the trouble of 
anfwering in a moft fatisfactory 
manner. 
I fhall firft take the liberty of 
citing Mr. Arfcoti’s letter of Sep- 
tember the 23d, 1768, which men- 
tions fome very curious particulars 
of this innocent reptile, which, for 
fuch a number of years found an 
afylum, from the good fenfe of a 
family 
