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foldiers in our regiment, and were Colonel Fourgeoud's 

 greateft favourites. 



Before we left Paramaribo, I had an opportunity of 

 feeing two very extraordinary animals of the aquatic 

 kind ; the one was in Mr. Roux's cabinet of curiofities, 

 and is called in the colony jackee, in Latin, rana pifcatrix. 

 This fi(h is about eight or ten inches long, without 

 fcales, exceeding fat and delicate, as I can teftify by ex- 

 perience, and is found m all narrow creeks and marfhy 

 places. But what is extremely remarkable is, that this 

 creature, however incredible it may appear, abfolutely 

 changes to a perfect frog, but not from a frog to a fifh, 

 as Merian, Zeba, and fome random hirtorians (among 

 whom I am forry to name Weflley) have been pleafed to 

 affert; and of this truth I was at this time fully fatisfied, 

 by feeing the above animal diffedted, and fufpended in a 

 bottle with fpirits ; when the two hinder legs of a very 

 fmall frog made their appearance, growing infide from 

 that part of the back to which ufually the inteftines are 

 fixed. I neverthelefs humbly prefume to fuppofe, in 

 this cafe, that the jackee is neither more nor lefs than a 

 kind of tadpole, which grows to a large iize before it 

 undergoes the ufual transformation. 



The other animal I faw at the houfe of my friend 

 Kennedy : this is what Dr. Bancroft calls the torporific, 

 and others the electrical eel, and which Dr. Firmyn 

 fuppofes to poffefs the fame quahties with the torpedo. 



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