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found twelve eggs, each about the fize of a grain of millet, of a yel- 

 low colour, and in Ihape not unlike a lemon. 



In tlie fore part of tlie head, and jult in front of the mouth, I 

 ohferved two teeth, each fixed on a fliort joint, and they are ufed, 

 as 1 imagine, by the Scorpion, to grind its food, before it is taken 

 into the mouth. Thefe I feparated from the head, and found each 

 to confilt of a three-fold tooth, one of which was fo made, as to fit 

 exa6lly the cavity between the two oppofite ones. And, to (hew 

 tlie llrength of thefe teeth, I caufed a drawing to be made of one 

 of them. Fig. 14, O P Q R, is this tooth, or more properly this 

 three fold tooth, and on it, at P, are to be feen fome huirs; the legs 

 of this creature are alfo covered with hairs. 



I alfo placed before the microfcope one of the claws, which are 

 like thofe of crabs or lobllers, and in Jig. 11, are to be feen at C 

 or D. And I caufed a drawing of this claw to be made, in order to 

 fhev/ the curious formation of it. Fig. 15, S T, is the claw, magni- 

 fied, and on it are plainly to be feen a great number of teeth or 

 notches, like thofe of a faw, Ibme of them larger than others, and 

 which faw-like teeth, I doubt not are fo formed for enabling th,e 

 Scorpion firmly to hold liich fmall living creatures as it catches for 

 its prev. 



Seeing now, the wonderful make of this animal, thougli to us 

 it is fo detefiiHe, and indeed fo noxious ; and, confidering the perfeft 

 wifdom requifite for the contrivance of its feveral parts, we have 

 furely ten thoufand times more reafon to believe that its origin is 

 derived from thofe which were created at the Beginning, tlian to 

 adhere to the chimasras and errors of the ancients, fome of whom 

 have tranfmitted to us in tlieir writings, the notion, that Scorpions 

 are not produced by generation, but from the great heat of the fun ; 

 others, that they are bred from putrefa6tion in the bodies of croco- 

 diles ; and others again, that they are generated in rotten wood, and 

 fuch like fidtions. 



