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ROOM xir. 
Kat, Hist. 
TWELFTH ROOM. 
This room contains a genera! and extensive 
collection of fishes, serpents, tortoises, lizards, 
frogs, &C* as well as many specimens of quadru¬ 
peds, preserved in spirits. 
Among the most curious of the fishes, are the 
torpedo ; the electric gymnote, popularly called 
the electric eel; the remora ; the flying-fish, &c. 
Among the cpiadrupeds the most remarkable 
are, a very fine specimen of the three-toed sloth; 
the two-toed?ditto ; the slender-limbed inacauco ; 
the least ant-eater; and the silky monkey. 
Among the tortoises the most remarkable are, 
the testudo ferox, or fierce tortoise, and the testu- 
do radiata, or radiated tortoise. 
Among the frog tribe may be particularized, 
the Argus frog, or North American spotted bull¬ 
frog ; the pi pa or Surinam toad, remarkable for 
producing its young from numerous cells on its 
back; the blue and yellow frog; the large tad¬ 
pole of the frog, called the paradoxical frog, a na¬ 
tive of Surinam. 
Among the lizard tribe may be observed, the 
salamander; the chamaeleon ; the guana; the em¬ 
broidered lizard, from New Holland: several 
young crocodiles of different sizes and kinds ; and 
