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LEI'ISMA. 
most admirable fabrick of animals, as to make 
the very spending and wasting of that fire to be 
instrumental to the procuring and collecting more 
materials to augment and cherish itself, which in- 
deed seems to be the principal end of all the con- 
trivances observable in bruit Animals.” 
Lepisma polypus Lin, is of a dusky or brownish 
cast, and has a springing or leaping motion when 
disturbed. It is found about the sea coast of 
many northern regions, under stones, &c. 
