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having poisoned the wine, which he had sold. 
This the latter indignantly denied, and to prove 
(as he said,) that he had not done so, he called 
for a large cnpful of it. This he received, drank 
it, and, a few minutes afterwards, was a corpse. 
The wine was then spilt out, and after the 
cask had been emptied, something was heard 
rattling about in the inside, the head was im- 
mediately stove in, when an immense " JDonder- 
paade" or Monster Toad, was found in it. 
This case caused great excitement at the 
time, and certainly seemed to confirm the be- 
lief, that this creature possesses some powerful 
poisonous properties, which, unlike the venom 
of the serpent tribes, is not imbibed by infusion 
through the blood, but by absorption in the 
stomach. 
Of the more minute insects, we must here 
say nothing, but close this chapter with these 
brief remarks, referring the more curious in 
Natural history, to works treating more exclu- 
sively on that branch, of which many are to be 
procured. 
Of the South African pisces, in an Appendix 
is given a condensed compendium of those, 
found in and about the Southern bays and 
shores of the African Continent, compiled, with 
great care and much intelligence, by Dr. Pappe, 
of Cape Town. 
