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into nine fcveral parts, joints, or articulations, aixl fo many alfo are 

 found in the gentle. This gives the reafon, why wc mult r.ct iup- 

 pofe, that the rings or creafes which we fee on the grains of Cochi- 

 neal, are accidentally produced in the drying, for they were com- 

 pleatly formed in the maggot, from whence the flying infedt ifiiied, 

 the hinder part of whofe body conftitutes that fubftance named 

 Cochineal ; of which, if we examine the grains, we fliall find them 

 to contain ten articulations ; and the fore part of the infe6t's body, 

 which includes the head and feet, and the wings with their cafes, 

 being compofed of four joints or rings, it follows, that the Cochineal 

 infect is formed of fourteen joints, rings, or articulations. 



After I had left the grains of Cochineal in water, for the fpace of 

 twenty-four hours or upwards, I obferved, that the cavity, which 

 liad been caufed in them by the drying, was fwelled and extended 

 to its original fliape, fo that the grains appeared exacStly to agree, iii 

 form and make, with tlie hinder parts of thole infedf s, wiiofe wings 

 and bodies are covered with Ihells or cafes. 



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