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nageable and tractable fabricks, find much more reafon to admire the 
excellency of her contrivance and workmanthip, then to wonder, it was 
not made otherwife. | | 
. The head’of this little Infec& was fhap'd fomewhat like a Mite’s, that 
is,it had along {nout ; in the manner of a Hogs, with a knobbed ridge. 
running along the middle of it, which was beftuck on either fide with 
many {mall brifles, all pointing forward, and two very large pikes or; 
horns, which rofe from thetop of the head, juft over each eye, and 
pointed forward alfo. . It had two pretty large black eyes on either fide’ 
of the head EE, from one of whichI could fee a very bright reflection’ 
| of the window, which made me ghefs, that the Corzea of it was {mooth,, 
like thofe of bigger Infects. Its motion was pretty quick and ftrong, 
it being able very eafily to tumble a ftone or clod four timesas big asits 
whole body. ... ; 
At the fame time and ‘place, and diverstimes fince, I have obferved 
with my AZicrofcope , another little Infect , which, though I have not an- 
nexéd the picture of, may be worth noting, for its exceeding nimblenefs 
as well as fmalnefS; it was as fmall as a Mite, with a body deep and 
ridged, almoft like a Flea 3. it had eight blood-red legs, not very long, 
but {lenders and two horns or feelers before. Its motion was fo exceed- 
ing quick, that I have often loft fight of oneI have obferved with my 
naked eye; and though; when it was not frighted, [was ableto follow 
the motionsof fome with my AGcrofcope; yet if it vvere never fo little 
ftartled, it pofted avvay vvith fuch fpeed, andturn’d and vvinded it felf 
fo quick, that I fhould prefently lofe fight of it. | 
When Ifirft obferv’d the former of thefe Infeéts, or Mites, I began to 
conjecture; -that certainly I had found out the vagabond Parents of thofe 
Mites we find in Cheefes; Meal, Corn, Seeds, mufty Barrels, mufty Lea- 
ther, ec. thefe little Creatures, vvandring to and fro every whither, - 
might perhaps, as they vvere invited hither and thither by the mufty 
{teams of feveral putrifying bodies, make their invafions upon thofe new 
and pleafing territories , and there {pending the remainder of their life, 
which might be perhaps a day, orthereabouts, in very plentiful and rio- 
tous living, might leave their off-fpring behind them, which by. the 
_ change of the foil and Country they now inhabite, might be quite al- 
ter d from the hew of their primogenitors, and, like Mores tranflated into 
Northern Ewropeaw Climates, after a little time, change both their skin 
and fhape. And this feems yet more probable inthefe Infeéts, becaufe 
that the foil or body they inhabit, feemsto be almoft half their parent, 
for it not only hatches and brings thofe little eggs, or feminal principles, 
to perfection, but feemsto augment and nourifh them alfo before they 
are hatch'dor fhaped 5 for it is obvious enough to be obferv’d, that the 
eggs of many other Infeéts, and particularly of Mites, are increas in 
i -bulk after they are laid out of the bodies of the Infeéts, and plump’d 
fometimes into many timestheir former bignefs , fo that the bodies they 
ch an attive power to change their forms. We find by 
os relations, 
_ sare laid in being: asit were, half their mothers, we thall not wonder that 
. ‘Itfhould have fu 
