Gave birth to a toad

A poor labourer's wife at Gravesend was delivered of a monster that resembled a toad. It had an extraordinary large head, but no features or lineament of a face, except one eye, nor the appearance of any sex that could be distinguished. In the place of legs and arms were stumps, or rather flaps. The reason assigned for this production is, that the mother, in her pregnancy, being at work in a hop-ground, a toad jumped into her lap, and frightened her exceedingly.