MicrocRapnaia, 
were divided into feveral {maller and pieater bck teeth Swaenothind 
butwne {mall bended hard boneswhich Bae plac’d inthe upper bali ofieke 
mouth of a Houfe-Snail,) withwhich:Tobferv'd this-very Snailrolfeed oii 
the leaves of a Rofe-tree, andto bite out pretey Jargé aisd! halfrouid 
bits,:not unlike the Pigure of 'a'¢C) horvery much differing-from iia 
bignels, the upper'part “A B CD of this bone; found tobe much whiter: 
and to prow outot the upper chap of the Snail-0 G-Gjand nétto bean 
thing neer fo much creas'd as the Jower and blacker part of it AITHKKH 
which*was exactly thap’d like teeth; the bone growing thinners or taper! 
ingto.an edge towards K K K. Irfeem’d to have'nine teeth; orprominent 
parts TK, 1K, TF) oe. which were join’d together by the chinneriaters 
pos'd parts of the bone. ‘The Animal to which thefe teeth belong, isa 
very avomalons creature, and feems of a kind! quite diftin@ from any 
_ other terrefirial Animal or Infed, the Anatomy whereof exceedingly: dif | 
fering from what has been hitherto given of itl fhould have inferted but 
that it will be more proper in another place. Thave neverthetiwith: 
kind ‘of Animal whofe teeth areal} join’d' in one, fave onely that lately 
obferv'd, that all the teeth of a Rhinoceror,) which grow on'cither fide | 
ofitsmouth, are join'd into one large bone, the weight of one of which 
I'found tobe neer eleyen pound Haverdupois.' So that it tems one of | 
the: biggeft fort of terteftrial Animals, as well-as ‘one of the fmallefty 
has his teeth thusthap d. ; eh 1, 1 DOIG 2h 1 eSTUst mg Anat x ’ 
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» Obferv. XLL Of the Egesof Silk-worms,and other » 
ar chance deen ofiatakies fais ee Bes ae Vind + meet y 
"Sy He Eggs of Silk-worms(one of which have deferib'd inthe fecond 
“BY Figure of 25. Scheme) aflord a pretty Objet for a AGcrofcope that. 
magnifies very nvach, efpecially if it be bright weather, and the light: of a 
window be caft or collected onit by a deep Convex-glafs, or Waterballs 
_ For then the whole furface ofthe Shell may be perceivd all eover'd over 
with ——- {mall pits or cavities with interpofed edges, almoft in the 
aad of the furface of a nc ke beetas teks ge are - ss sient 
redth part fcarce ofitheirbignefs; the $hell;when-the young ones w 
hatch'd’ (which I ahs Sette ing to do, if the Eggs were kept ina - 
warm place) appear’d no thicker in proportion to its bulk,then that of 
an Hen’s:or Goos's Egg isto its bulk,and all the Shell be bar d very white 
(which:feem’d to proceed from its tranfparency) whence all thofe pit- 
tings did almoft vanith, fo thatthey could not; without much difficulty, 
SI better 2 the infide of the Seika dito be lin'd alfo with a kind of 
_ thin film,not unlike (keeping the proportion to its Shell that with which 
the thelkof an Hen-eggis lin'd 5 and the hell it felf feem’d like common 
Egg-fhelis, very brittle, and v3 rate _ sbi 4 ot . wof thele 
Died sintel the edges of Pes thelld The thape of the Egg it felf, the 
Fi igure pretty well reprefents(though by defaule of the Graver it does 
not 
