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Excerpt from The Naturalist's Cabinet, Vol. 6 of 6: Containing Interesting Sketches of Animal History; Illustrative of the Natures, Dispositions, Manners, and Habits, of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Amphibia, Reptiles, &C. In the Known World The bodies of the amphibia are cold to the, touch; this circumstance, and their usually squar lid and ugly form, have excited so great a disgust as partly to have founded the notion of all of them being venomous. Very few, howev except among the serpent tribes, and even these not more than one sixth of the possess this dreadful quality. They are all tremely tenacious of life, and some of them continue to move and exert animal functions, even destitute of their head or heart. Their colors are often livid and disgusting, though some are decorated With most splendid skins. Many of them exhale a loathsome odor, owing perhaps to the foulness of their abode, or the substances on which they feed. Their voic/es are either harsh and unmusical, or else the animals are entirely dumb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.