C RAVELS I ft' 
ail over the country. Their fpawn being hatched' 
in the warm water, the larva is there nourifhed, 
paffing through the like metamorphofes as the 
water frogs ; and as foon as they obtain four feet, 
whilft yet no larger than crickets, they leave the 
fluid nurfery-bed, and hop over the dry land after 
their parents, 
The food of thefe amphibious creatures, when 
out of the water, is every kind of infect, reptile^ 
&c. they can take, even ants and fpiders ; nature 
having furniflied them with an extreme long tongue ? 
which exudes a vifcid or glutinous liquid, they be- 
ing fecreted under covert, fpring fuddenly upon 
their prey, or dart forth their tongue as quick as 
lightning, and inftantly drag into their devouring 
jaws the unwary infect. But whether they prey upon 
one another, as the water frogs do, I know not. 
There are .feveral fpecies of the lizard kind bendes 
the alligator, which is by naturalifts allowed to be a 
fpecies of that genus. 
Th< green lizard or little green chameleon'' is a 
pretty innocent creature : the larger! I have feen- 
tvere - 5 -jaiore than feven inches in length: they 
appear c&i $##ly of a fine green colour, having a 
large red gill under their throat : they have the fa- 
culty of changing colour, which, notwithstanding., 
the fpecious reafoning of phyfiologifts, is a very 
furprifmg phenomenon. The ftriped lizard, called 
fcorpion, and the blue bellied Squamous lizards f 
have already mentioned. There is a large copper 
coloured lizard, and a very llender one of a fine 
blue colour, and very fwift ; the tail of this laft, 
which is very long and {lender, is as fubject to be 
broken off as that of the glafs make. Thefe two 
laft 
