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TWELFTH ROOM. 
room xii. This room contains a general and extensive 
Nat. Hist, collection of fishes, serpents, tortoises, lizards, 
frogs, &c. as well as many specimens of quadru- 
peds, preserved in spirits. 
Among the most curious of the fishes, are the 
torpedo ; the electric gymnote, popularly called 
the electric eel ; the remora; the flying-fish, &c. 
Among the quadrupeds the most remarkable 
are, a very fine specimen of the three-toed sloth ; 
the two-toed ditto ; the slender-limbed macauco ; 
the least ant-eater ; and the silky monkey. 
Among the tortoises the most remarkable are, 
the testudo ferox, or fierce tortoise, and the testu- 
do radiata, or radiated tortoise. 
Among the frog tribe may be particularized, 
the Argus frog, or North American spotted bull- 
frog ; the pipa or Surinam toad, remarkable for 
producing its young from numerous cells on its 
back ; the blue and yellow frog $ the large tad- 
pole of the frog, called the paradoxical frog, a n ac- 
tive of Surinam. 
Among the lizard tribe may be observed, the 
salamander ; the chamasleon ; the guana ; the em- 
broidered lizard, from New Holland : several 
young crocodiles of different sizes and kinds ; and 
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