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yet obferv'd them rang’d in a quadrangular order, the tows cutting éach 
other at right angles,which as it admits of a lefs number Of Pearls in e 
durfaces 5 fo have thofe creatures a recompence made them, by having | 
their eyes a little movable in their heads, which the other altogether 
want. Soinfinitely wife and provident dowe find all the Difpenfations in 
Nature, that certainly Ep7ceuras, and his followers, mutt very little: have 
confider'd them, who afcrib’d thofe’ things to the production of chance, ({ 
that wil;to.a more attentive confiderer,appear the produéts of the higheft 
Wifdom and Providence, 1 DOYS [B.AIGU indi JON 73 
6) Upon the Anatomy or Diflection of the Head}. I obferv'd thefe par: 
ticulars :. 99 ‘ Fey tec Paka et af dog 4 
_« /Firlt, that this outward kin, like the ‘Corves of the eyes of the greater 
_ Animals, was both flexible and tranfparent, and feem’d, through the a#- 
crofeope; perfectly rorefemble the very fub{tance of the Corzea of a man’s 
eye; for having cut out the clufter, and remov'd thedark and wacows 
ftuif that is fubjacenc to it, 1 could fee ir tranfparent like a thin piece of 
kins havihg as many cavities in the infide of it, and rang’d in the fame | 
order as it had protubérazees onthe ourfide,and this propricty,I found the 
fame in all the Animals that had it, whether Flies or Shell-Fith. | 
_» Secondly. 1 found thatall Animals that I have obferv'd with thofe kind 
of eyes, have withinthis Corwea, a certain cleer liquor or juice, though in 
avery little quantity,and, ¢ 0) ow 4 OBA qivo yiiod 
- Lobferv'd thirdly, that within that cleer liquor, they had akind of 
datk mexcows lining, which was all {pread roun preety on 7 
‘Gufter, and feem’d very neer adjoining to it, the colour of hy in , 
fome Fliesswas grey ;.itrothers, black; in others red 5 in others,of a mix’d | 
colour : in others,{potted.; and that the whole clufters, when look’d on | 
whil't the Animal was living, or but newly kill’d; appear’d of the fame 
Colour that this coat (as [may fo call it) appear’d of, when that outward 
es Or Cornea,was removd. ood reat ol . , bei . 
- Fourthly, that the reft of the capacity of the cluiters wasin fome, as 
Dragon flies, ec, hollow, or empty 5 in others fill'd with fome kind 
of fubftance s in blue Flies, witha reddith mufculous fubftance, with fbres 
_ tending from the center or bottom outwards 5 and divers other, with va- 
_ H0usand-differing kindsoffubftances. = ong: az, 
~ That thiscuriouscontrivance is the organ of fight to all thofe various 
Criflaceous Animals, which are fatnifh’d with it, 1 think we need not 
doubt, if weconfider but the &veral congruities it has with the eyes of 
Sttater creatures. | | 
igure of each ofthe {mall Hemifpheres are — 
other organs that have any refemblance to the known eyes of other 
Epe 7 Bb Thirdly, 
