Microo@Rra pupa, 
_ yelations how much the Negro Women do_befitieer the of-{piing’ of the 
Spaniard, bringing forth neither, white-{kinn’d: nor black, but tawny ~ 
hided. Atélattos. Af OS ETE FAROE DY 
.. New, though I propound this as probable; 'I have not'yetibeen K an 
certify d by Obfervations as to conclude any, thing;. laa patiiely i 
negatively,concetning it, Perhaps,fome more hicky diligence may’ pleafe 
the, curious Inquirer with the difcovery of this,to be a trurhywhich! now 
conjecture, and may thereby give him a fatisfactory account of tke caufe 
‘of thofe creatures,whofe original feems yet {a obfeure; and nay give him 
caufe to believe,that many other animate beings, that {cemalfo to-be the 
mere product of putrifaction, may be innobled witha Pedigtee aganci+ 
ent as the firft creation, and farr exceed: the preateft beings intheirnus 
merous Genealogies, But on, the.other fide, if it thould be found. that 
thefe,or any other animate body have noimmediate fimilar Parent,] have 
in-another place fet down. a conjectural Hypothefis whereby thofe Phat 
nomena may likelyenough be folv'd,. wherein: the! infinite wifdom and 
providence of the Creator is no lefs rare and wonderfull): os bas 2 jae 
ES> ad Saae 
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1) Eading one day in septemb. I chanced toobfervea very final eredtite 
&\ creep over the Bock I was reading, very flowly ; having a Microfcope 
_ by me,f obfervd it to bea creature of a very unufual form,and that not 
Jefs notable 5 fuch as is defcrib’d in the fecond Figure of the 33. &cheme. It 
was.4bout the bigne(s of a la tee Mite,or meni longer ¢ bart Hegs, 
eight of which, A A AA, were topt with verytharp claws, and were thofe 
upon which he walk’d, {eeming fhap'd miuch:Jike thofe ofa:Grab, which 
in many other things alfo this little creature refembled forthe two 
other claws,B B,, which were the formoft ofall the ten,and feem’d td grow | 
out of his head, like the horns of other Animals,were exactly form’d in thé 
manner of Crabs or Lobfters claws, for they were fhap'd:and jointed 
much like thofe reprefened in the Scheme andthe ends Bi pp as were furs 
nifh'd with a pair of claws or pincers,C C,which this little animal did open 
and fhutat pleafure : It feem’d to make ufe of thofe twoshorns or claws 
both for feelersand holders; for in its motion it'carried thefe aloft ex 
tended before, moving them to and fro, juft as a man’ blindfolded 
_ would do his hands when he is fearfull of running againft.a wall, and if T 
put a hair to it, it would readily take hold of it with:thefe claws, 
and feem to hold it faft. Now; though thefe horns feem'd to ferve him 
for two ufes,namely,for feeling and holding }-yet he feem'd neither blind, 
having two {mall black {pots, D D, which by the make of them;and the | 
bright reflection from them feem'd to be his eyes5 nor did it wantother 
hands, having another pair of claws, EE, very neer plac'dto its mouth, 
and. feem’d adjoining toit. — forts viafisen 
The whole body was cafed over with armour-fhells, as is afuall in all 
hs pyint ae sane | : thofe Fe 
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