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Author's note: In the year 1880, a part of miners were brushing a roadway through old workings in the greenbank Pit, Dalry. A shot had been fired, and when the men returned to the scene of the blast they were surprised to see a toad on the top of the debris. Further discovery disclosed the fact that it had been released by the action of the explosion...
Historical Records, December 24th 1776 - This year in a coal mine near Sunderland, England, a large toad was found alive in solid coal, 190 feet below ground...
Sydney, March 29, 1925 - Workmen excavating at the Rylestone District Hospital found a live frog embedded in solid rock...
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