SALAMANDER. 
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obliged the animal to wound some fowls and a dog; 
but the bite in no instance seemed to produce the 
smallest inconvenience. There is something re- 
markable, however, in the following fact. A dog 
and a turkey-cock swallowed some salamanders 
without the least injury; and yet when other lizards 
were made to bite this species and swallow some of 
the liquor which exudes from their pores, it con- 
stantly proved fatal. 
The salamander is viviparous, and produces from 
fifteen to forty at a birth. 
