Every House keeps three or four Mungrel _Dogs_ to destroy Vermin, such as _Wolves_, _Foxes_, _Rackoons_, _Opossums_, &c. But they never Hunt with Hounds, I suppose, because there are so many Branches of Rivers, that they cannot follow them. Neither do they keep Grey-Hounds, because they say, that they are subject to break their Necks by running against Trees, and any Cur will serve to run their Hares into a hollow Tree, where after the aforesaid manner they catch them. They have great store both of Land and Water _Tortoises_, but they are very small, I think I never saw any in that Country to exceed a Foot in length; there is also another sort of Land-Tortoise, different from the common sort, with a higher ridged Back, and speckled with red sort of Spots. _Frogs_ they have of several sorts, one of a prodigious largeness, eight or ten times as big as any in _England_, and it makes a strange noise, something like the Bellowing of a Bull, or betwixt that and the hollow sounding noise that the English Bittern makes. Another very common sort, which they call _Toads_, because black, but I think differs nothing from our black Frog. They have Toads also like ours in _England_; and another small sort of Frog, which makes a noise like Pack-horse Bells all the Spring long. Another little green Frog, that will leap prodigiously, which they therefore call the Flying Frog. There is frequently heard in the Woods a shrill sort of noise, much like that which our Shrew-Mouse makes, but much sharper; I could never learn the certainty what it was that made this noise, it is generally in a Tree, and some have asserted to me, that it was made by the green Frog, yet I scarcely believe it. Mr. _Banister_ assured me it was made by a sort of _Scarabeus_ Beetle, that is I think full as big as the Humming-Bird; but neither do I believe that, and for this Reason, for I never saw that Beetle so low as the Salts, but always as high up in the Country as the Freshes, and that noise is frequent all over the Country. _Lizards_, that are gray, and very common, the Snakes feed much on them, for I have taken several of them out of the Bellies of Snakes.