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gots, and, having feen by the micro fcope, that their bodies are 

 formed with creafes or rings, it occurred to me, that they were of 

 that Ibrt which do not bring forth young ones while in that ftate, 

 but, hke catterpiilars, feveral kinds of maggots, and alfo fleas, 

 change into aurelias, and thefe again into flying or creeping infedls, 

 and in that ftate couple and lay eggs. 



Now, as 1 had found thel'e maggots among the Ikins of the Mace, 

 I concluded, that when their change approaches, it is in their nature 

 to abandon the leaves : and, as in my former learcli i had found a 

 cry falls, which I concluded had been changed from one of thefe 

 maggots, inclofed in its fliell or covering, I went a third time to the 

 India Company's warehoufe, and caufed a confiderable quantity of the 

 white Mace to be put into a fieve and fifted, in expe61:ation, that 

 among the finer parts, which palled through the fieve, I fliould find 

 feveral infe^fs that had gone through their change. 



By this means, I obtained two handfuls of fmall matter or duft, 

 mixed with many minute particles of Mace, but I perceived, that 

 the greater part confifted of the excrements of infe6ls ; I alfo 

 took a handful of duft, fifted from a parcel of Mace, before the 

 officers had forted the damaged from the found : on my return, 

 I carefully examined the whole, and found in it, at leaft one hundred 

 dead animals, which I concluded had been produced from the be- 

 fore mentioned maggots, I alfo found two flying infedfs of the fame 

 fort with thofe which I had obferved in the Nutmeg ; likewife the 

 fkins of two aurelias, and one of thofe creatures called a weevil, but 

 which, as well as the reft, was dead. Such of thefe animals as had 

 been produced by tranfmutation, were all of the like make, and al- 

 moft of the fame fize as the full grown miaggots, and 1 judged, that 

 if they had not proceeded from thofe maggots, they would have 

 been of different fizes. 



Some of thefe maggots, I placed before different microfcopes. 



