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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia, or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 16: Constructed on a Plan, by Which the Different Sciences and Arts Are Digested Into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems; Ran-Sco
Yet there is a time of the year when they become mute, neither croaking nor opening their mouths for a whole month this happens in the hot feafon, and that is in many places known to the country people by the name of the paddock moon. It is faid, that during that period their mouths are fo clol'ed, that no force (with out killing the animal) will be capable of Opening them.
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