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white, fpotted and clouded with dufky fpots of va- 
rious fize and figure; their legs and thighs alfo are 
variegated with tranfverfe ringlets, of dark brown 
or black ; and they are yellow and green about, 
their mouth and lips. They live in wet fwamps and 
marfhcs, on the fhores of large rivers and lakes ; 
their voice is loud and hideous, greatly refembling 
the grunting of a fwine; but not near as loud as the 
voice of the bull frog of Virginia and Pennfylvania : 
neither do they arrive to half their fize, the bull frog 
being frequently eighteen inches in length, and 
their roaring as loud as that of a bull, 
(2) The bell frog, fo called becaufe their voice 
is fancied to be exadtly like the found of a loud 
cow bell. This tribe being very numerous, and 
"Uttering their voices in companies or by large dif» 
tridts, when one begins another anfwers ; thus the 
found is caught and repeated from one to another, 
to a great diilance round about, caufing a furprif- 
ing noife for a few minutes, rifing and finking ac- 
cording as the wind fits, when it nearly dies away, 
or is foftly kept up by diftant diPcridls or commu- 
nities: thus the noife is repeated continually, and 
as one becomes familiarifed to it, is not unmufical, 
though at firft, to ftrangers, it feems clamorous and 
difgufting. 
(3) A beautiful green frog inhabits the graffy, 
marihy fhores of thefe large rivers. They are verv 
numerous, and their noife exadtly refembles the 
barking of little dogs, or the yelping of puppies : 
thefe likewife make a great clamour, but as their 
notes are fine, and uttered in chorus, by feparate 
bands or communities, far and near, rifing and 
falling with the gentle breezes, affords a pieafing 
kind of mufiCe 
(4) There 
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