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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 fort of Frog, Vv^hick makes a noife like 
Pack-Horfe Bells all the Spring long. Another 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-Moufc 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 af- 
ferted to me, that it was made by the green Frog, yet 
I fcarcely believe it. Mr. B^;fi//(?r affured me it was 
made by a fort of Scarahem 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 theCountry 
as the Frellies, and that noife is frequent all over the 
Country. 
Lizards^ that are gray, and very common, the Snakes 
feed much on them, for I have taken feveral of them 
QUt of the bellies of Snakes. 
Snakes about feven feveral forts. The Rattle-Snake, 
fo called from certain Rattles at tlie end of the Tail ; 
ahejfe Rattles feem like fb many perifhed Joynts, being 
a dry Husk over certain Joynts, and the common Opi- 
ruon is, that there are as many Rattles or Joynts, _as 
the Snake is Years old ; I kilfd four cr five, and they 
had each eleven, twelve, cr thirteen Joynts each, but 
the Youog ones have no Rattles of a Year or two, but 
they may be known notwirhftanding, being very regu- 
larly diced or checker'd, black, and gray cn the backs : 
The Old fliake and ftiiver theft Rattles with wonderful 
nimblenefs when they are ariy ways dil^urbed ; their 
bite is very deadly, yet not always of the fame force, 
but more or lefs Mortal, accordingly as the Snake is in 
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