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Blecbnum occidentale. 

 ^richomanes Chincnfis. [Tab. vi.] 



Of Infe&s I found; 



Cancer oryza, a fmall kind of rough crabs, 

 which crept about the rice fields. 



Solan um Indicwn grew by the graves. On 

 this fpinofe plant I found a grub, which I kept 

 and fed in my hut till its third change, which 

 Was into one of the lepidoptera kinds. The 

 wondrous changes of thefe little creatures may 

 infpire us wretched men (who are juftly com- 

 pared to worms in Holy Scripture) with the 

 fublimeft thoughts. The grub in its firft (late 

 was reduced to creep over its little world with 

 juft as much trouble as we creep on earth and 

 feek our fubfiftence, frequently with the great- 

 eft; fatigue : how many needlefs journeys do 

 we take, and to how many dangers are we ex- 

 pofed ! one worm does not fpare the other on 

 the road. And as the grub in its next change 

 into an aurelia enters into a dark hcufe, in 

 which it lofes every fenfation of former plea- 

 fures ; thus we defcend into the obfcurc grave, 

 where we reft the appointed fpace : but when 

 A a 3 the 



