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IMPRISONED FROGS AND TOADS. The imprisonment of frogfs and toads in stono is much moro retnaik able than that in thp trunk of trees, eten if we believe only a modicum of the naratives published on the subject. The statements are un mistakable, and are made in all good faith, that living frogs and toads are occasionally thus imbedded, and that exact imj ressions of their bod ies corresponding to their respective sizes, are left in tho cavities of the stone whe.ie they are found. Chata worth is credited with once having had (wo do not know whether it still exists) a marble chimney -piece with a print of a toad in it; there was a traditionary account of the manner in whict it was found. The Jlining Journal contains an account of a dis oovery made by a miner at Pen-y-Caran, near Mertlny-Ty civil. When working at a depth foity-fhe feet his mandrel struck into a piece of nhale; a frog, large but weak.lcaped out and crawled along tho ground -with some difficulty; the eyes were full-sized, but apparently sightless; the mouth seemed as permanently closed, and the spineVns twisted as if it had been compelled to adapt it self to a narrow and ill-shaped space Tho frog, when liberated, grew iu size and weight, but could not be fed; he appeared to breathe through the skin covering the lower jaw. AVe certainly cannot blame Ellis, the mi ner, from exhibiting bis prodigy to admiring visitors at a public-houso in Merthyr; and considering tho in tensity of popular belief on this sub ject, ve must view indulgently his. inscrintion: "The irreatest wonder of l ho world! a frog found in a stone ' forty feet below tho surface of the j surface of the earth, where it has ' been living without food for the last . fivo thousand years!" The first question is now how much of these narratives to believe; and the second, how to account for no much as wo do believe. That (rogs live to a great age, that they nre liable to endure long abstinence, ! 1 1 l 1 1 . e l i : : I LI ill, IUCJI pUHCl Ui lill'CilJUkiUU is something extraordinary, and that the skin has the property of acting upon tho atmosphere in such a way as to fulfill in some degree the func tion of tho lungs, are facts admitted by naturalists. Tho toad, also, vvhc n j kept in a dark place, can live for several months without food of any kind. Smellie, whilo cautiously ab- j staining alike from positive belief j and absoluto incredulity, recom- j mended observant men to aitend toj such a possiblo explanation as the t following: "In the rocks there are ! many chinks as well as fissures, both j horizontal and perpendicular, and in old trees nothing is moro frequent than ho'es tnd vacuities of various dimensions. Through these fissures and vacuities the eggs of toads may be accidently conveyed by water.tho penetration of which few substances are capable of resisting. After tho eggs are hatched, the animals may receive moisture and small portions of air through the crevices of rocks or the channols of aged trees. But," he modestly adds, I mean to per suade, for I cannot satisy myself." Mr. Broderip, the naturalist, docs not admit the probability of Smellie's conjecture concrening tho convey ance of frog's eggs by water. No ; ono now doubts that frogs, toads, ; snakes, and lizards really do issue f occasionally from rock broken in a ! quarry, hard stone loosened in well-, sinking, and coal or shale dug in a colliery; but the question is whether j the substances were really solid and i imj)assabJe to air and moisfcuro. The j late Dr. Buckland remarked that j 'tho evidence is never perfect tot Bhow that the reptiles were entirely j inclosed in solid rock. No exami nation is made until the reptilo is first discovered by the breaking of tha mass in which it was contained, and then it is too lato to ascertain, without carefully replacing every fragment (and in no case that I have seen reported has this ever been done,) whether or not there was any hole or crevice by which tho animal may have entered the cavity from which it was extracted. Without previous examination it is almost impossible to prove that thero was no such communication." Dr. Buckland, to test tho matter in some degree, made some remark able experiments. He caused twelve j circular cells or cavities to be cut in ? a large block of oolito limestone, j with provision for an air-tight glass cover to each oell. Twelve other cells were cut in a block of sil-clous sandstone. Twenty-four Jive toads were put into the cells, one in each, the covei e fastened down air-tight aud the blocks of stone buried three feet deep in a garden. They were left undisturbed for twelve inoqths, at the end of which time the cells were opened. All the toads in the sandstone rock were dead, but most of those in the oolite (the cells of which were larger) were still living, Some had lessened in weight, some had increased. But as a few of the plates of glass were found cracked, it was deemed possible that minute insects mi;ht have entered. Tho living toads were left alone for another twelve months, at the end of which time all were dead. Hq en through the glass covers, the poor fellows seemed to be alwavs awake, with open eyes. Perhaps they were marveling what crime of their had subjected them to a sentence of two years solitary confinement. To sum up; the best naturalists now agree that, however wonderful the ascertained phenomena really are frogs and toads cannot live one year without air, nor probably two years wihtout food. Harper's Weekly. Householders. 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