TCD MS 10515 folio 47v
[April 28th 1916]
floating weed, consisting of innumerable small and separate leaves resting freely on the surface of the water. Every frog, as it moved about amongst these little weeds became covered with a layer of tiny green leaves. These adhered all over the frogs body and concealed it from view. Tortoises, swimming to the bank, became similarily clothed in a leafy garment and sat unseen as they sunned themselves on the bank. The water weeds thus protect both the frogs and the tortoises; and in return for this protection, I suspect that the frog and tortoises, in their journeys, tend to dispense the water-weed from channel to channel. All these channels are in communication with the river, and rise and fall with the ebb and flow of the tide. Frogs frequenting them are this liable to be swept backwards and