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of “ What can become of them !” Some 
inquirers, however, not discouraged witli 
*>» 0 r? '“fficnlties, have prosecuted their researches with 
®'‘ar' oi those, living a few years ago 
rjji moutli of James River in Virginia, where the 
'Ufo extremely nnmerons, has (as I was 
•tto '^pet) lately discovered that they change 
‘‘nil having himself found in his meadows an 
of an extraordinary kind, that appeared to he 
«- 'tt a sora nor a frog, hut, as he expressed it, 
a^,,^®thing between the two.” He carried it to his 
thrp'**^’ “tnil afterwards took it home, where it lived 
finys; in his own and his negroes’ opinion, it 
like nothing in this world Imt a real sora 
(ii into a frog ! What farther confirms this grand 
is the well known circumstance of the frogs 
to hollow as soon as the sora comes in the fall, 
tgy sagacious discoverer, however, like many others 
and "''*'1 in history, has found 
, *' 4 , • 
«arn 
This, 
but few supporters, 
leg ’ ®xcept his own negroes, has not, as far as 1 can 
l*«itir,’ n. single convert to his opinion. Matters 
I circumstanced, and some explanation necessary. 
“Ulii 
endeavour to throw a little more light on the 
a simjde detail of facts, leaving the reader 
his on n theory as he pleases. 
4 l,o 1® *'nil or sora belongs to a geuus of birds of which 
*'nhsf ■ '■'’‘’’iy different species are enumerated by iiatu- 
re^i nnd those are distributed over almost every 
®hara" habitable parts of the earth. The general 
*"'iftl of these is every where the same. They run 
dow, T ' fly slowly, and usually with the legs hanging 
‘‘nd extremely fat; are fond of concealment; 
Most practi<MbI(*, prefer running; to flying;- 
’‘‘dim, them are migratory, and abound during the 
hay id certain countries, tlio inhabitants of which 
an opportunity of seeing them. Ot 
This ™i di Britain i.s a striking example. 
hgjj,j®l''d, whi<'.h during the summer months niay be 
Isia,;. almost every grass and clover field in the 
bdotn, uttering its common note Cre/i, crek, from 
