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thie body folded together, v,C muft be loft in admiration, and th^ 

 more, when we recoiled the multitude of vcftels and joints, and 

 alfo mufcles, requifite for the formation and expanlion of fuch a 

 wing ; and we may well alk, whether any man in his fenfes, who 

 is not erltirely blinded by prejudice, can contemplate fuch a crea- 

 ture, by the microfcope, without acknowledging that it could not 

 polTibly be produced from corruption, Or the putrefied bodies of 

 other animals, and will he not rather cry out in the words of an 

 eminent gentleman, who lately came to fee my microfcopical ob- 

 jedls, " O the depth of the Divine Wifdom, how infcrutable are 

 " his works ! Can any m.an after this, be found to deny the being 

 *' of a God ?" or fuch like expreffions. 



I caufed a drawing to be made of this infedl, the fame llze as it 

 appears to the naked eye, which is reprefented in Plate XVI. 

 .fg. lO, and to avoid giving a drawing of the whole animal when 

 magnified, I cut off the head, and placed it before a microfcope to 

 be delineated, in order hereby, to flicw how the careful parent, 

 Kature, has created this fmall animal, that its fpecies may be pre- 

 ferved, and the order and perfection with which the world was at 

 firft created may not be diminifhed. 



Fig. 17, A I, reprefents part of the head: BH are the eyes, 

 which, in like manner as the eyes of Flies, are formed of many opti- 

 cal organs, and appear with as many protuberances as the fub- 

 ftancc, called fliagrcen, appears to the naked eye. 



C D E F G, is that organ or trunk, with which, as I fuppofe, 

 the animal perforates the bloflbm, while yet a bud, in order to lay 

 ian egg in every bud ; to which end, its extremity is provided with 

 various piercers or teeth, and other w^eapons, which are, in fonie 

 fort, reprefented in the drawing, but the whole of which, the lim- 

 ner could not copy, becaufe the animal, while alive, was opening 

 and fhutting, or extending and contradting, thefe organs, and, when 

 dead, they were almoft out of fight ; and though I did all in my 



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