Native American man losing a race with a bull frog to a pond, 18th century. They are observed by several Swedish men who have a bet on the race. The frog After an account by Swedish naturalist Pehr Kalm in Travels in North America, 1749. American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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