We have ourselves witnessed, during a storm of rain, frogs crowding into our cabin, in the low lands of Guiana, till they were packed up in the corners of the apartmcnt, and continually falling back in their attempts to ascend above their fellows ; and the door could not be opened with out others entering more rapidly than those within could be expelled. Now, as the temples, palaces and cities of Egypt stood, in general, on the edge of the ever dry desert, and always above the level of the highest inundations, to be there visited by a continuation of immense number of frogs was assuredly a most distreAsing calamity ; and as this phenomenon, in its ordinary occurrence within the tropics, is always accompanied by the storms of the monsoon or of the setting in of the rainy season, the dismay it must have caused may be judged of when we reflect that the plague occurred where rain seldom or never falls, where none of the houses are fitted to lead off the water, and that the animals appeared in localities where they had never before been found, and where, at all other times the scorching sun would have destroyed them in a few minutes. Nor was the selection of
the frog as an instrument of God's displeasure without portentous meaning in the minds of the idolatrous Egyptians, who considered that ani mal a type of Pthah—their creative power—and also an indication of man in embryo. The ma gicians, indeed, appeared to make frogs come up out of the waters ; but we must not understand that to them was given also the power of pro ducing the animals. The effect which they claimed as their own was a simple result of the continuation of the prodigy effected by Moses and Aaron ; for that they had no real power is evident, not only from their inability to stop the present plague, the control of which even Pharaoh discovered to be solely in the hands of Moses, but also the utter failure of their enchantments in that of lice, where their artifices were incompetent to impose upon the king and his people.
C. H. S.
FRONTrER (frOn'ter), (Heb. 71n, kaw-tsele , Ezek. xxv:9), the extremity or border of a country. FRONTLET (frOnt'let), (Heb. to-taw faw',to bind,only in Exod. xiii:16; Dent. vi:8; xi: 18).