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kind of waters lizard, I fhall not pretend to deter- 
mine : but, coniidering its fize, if it fhould be deem- 
ed a tadpole, as firft produced from a fpawn, and in 
its progrefs towards a frog, fuch a frog, when full- 
grown, if it bears the fame proportion to its tadpole 
that the frogs in Europe do, it muft be of an enor r 
mous fize ; for our full-grown frogs exceed the tad- 
poles, and young fry of perfect frogs, at lead fifty 
times in magnitude. 
London, March 27, 1760. 
LXL An Account of a remarkable Operation 
on a broken Ann ; by Mr . Charles White, 
Surgeon at Manchefter, com?nunicated by 
George Lloyd, Efq\ F. R. S. 
Read March 27, Obert Elliot, of Eyam, in Derby- 
17601 xV fhire, a very healthful boy of nine 
years old, had the misfortune, about midfummer 
in the year 1 759, by a fall, to fraCture the Hu - 
merits , near the middle of the bone. He was imme- 
diately taken to a bone-fetter in that neighbourhood, 
who applied a bandage and fplints to his arm, and 
treated him as properly, as, I fuppofe, he was capable 
of, for two or three months. His endeavours, how- 
ever, were by no means productive of the defired 
effeCt, the bones not being at all united. A furgeon 
of eminence in Bakewell was afterwards called in j, 
but as he foon found he could be of no fervice to him, 
and, as the cafe was very curious, he advifed the lad’s 
friends 
