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Jace, many yards long, not ina large 
“* quantity of jelly, like frogs fpawn. 
‘** N. B. After having held a female 
‘ fome time in my hand, I have, to 
‘* try if there was any {mell, put my 
-** finger a foot under water to a male, 
** who has immediately feized it, and 
‘© ftuck to as firmly as-if it was a fe- 
“male. Qwere, Would they feize a 
** finger or rag that had touched a 
** cancerous ulcer? 
‘* Sixthly, Infects being their food, 
“* T never faw any toad fhew any lik- 
“* ing or diflike to any plant*. 
** Seventhly, I hardly remember 
** any perfons taking it up except 
about the half of their length. It is by drawing this cord 
with his paw that the male performs the function of a mid- 
wife, and acquits himfelf init with a dexterity that one would 
not expect from fo lumpifh an animal. ‘ 
«¢ The prefence of the obferver did not a little difcompofe 
the male; for fome time he ftopped fhort, and threw on the 
curious impertinent a fixed look that marked his difquietnef and 
fear ; but he foon returned to his work with more precipita- 
tion than before, anda moment affer he appeared undetermi- 
ned whether he fhould continue it or not. The female like- 
wife difcovered her uneafinefs at the fight of the ftranger, by 
motions that interrupted fometimes the male in his operation. 
At length, whether the filence and fteady pofture of the fpec- 
tator had diffipated their fear, or that the ca/e was urgent, the 
male refumed his work with the fame vigour, and fuccefs- 
fully performed his fun@tion.” 
* This queftion arofe from an affertion of Linnzus, that the 
toad delighted in filthy herbs. Deké@arur Cotula, A&ea, Stachyde 
fatidis. ‘The unhappy deformity of the animal feems to be the 
only ground of this as well as another mifreprefentation, of its 
conveying a poifon from its pimples, its touch, and even its 
breath. Verruce lacte/cents: venenate infufe tatu, anhelitu. 
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