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Frogs they have of leveral forts, one of a 

 prodigious largenefs , eight or ten times as 

 big as any in England^ and it makes a ftrange 

 noile J fomething like the Bellowing of a 

 Bull, or betwixt that and the hollow found- 

 ing noife that the Englifh Bittern makes. 



Another very common fort, which they 

 call Toads ^ becaufe black, but I think differs 

 nothing from our black Frog. They have 

 Toads alfo like ours in England*^ and another 

 fmall iBrt of Frog, which makes a noife like 

 Pack-horfe Bells all the Spring long. Ano- 

 ther little green Frog , that will leap 

 prodigioufly , which they therefore call 

 the Flying Frog. There is frequently 

 heard in the Woods a flirill fort of noife, 

 much like that which our Shrew -Moufe 

 makes, but much fliarper^ I could never 

 learn the certainty what it was that made 

 this noife, it is generally in a Tree, and fome 

 have alFerted to me, that it was made by the 

 green Frog, yet I fcarcely believe it. Mr. 

 Banifter affiired me it was made by a fort of 

 Scarabeus Beetle, that is I think full as big as 

 the Humming-Bird , but neither do I believe 

 that, and for this Reafon, for I never faw 

 that Beetle fo low as the Salts, but always as 

 high up in the Country as the Frefhes , 

 and that noife is frequent all over the 

 Country. 



Liz,ards^ that are gray, and very common, 

 the Snakes feed much on them, for I have 

 taken feveral of them out of the Bellies of 

 Snakes. 



Sriahs , about feven feveral forts. The 

 Rattle-Snake, fo called from certain Rattles 



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