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and deceive many people, who fancy the 

 worms are produced from the particles of the 

 cheefe itfelf, by a generation called aequivocal, 

 which is extremely abfurd. Others exclude their 

 eggs upon certain animals* The mill-beetle Fn. 

 6i8. lays its eggs betw^n the fcales of fifties. 

 Tht /pedes of glad-Jiy Fn. 1024. on the back of 

 cattle, The ypmf J 1025 on the back of the rhen 

 deer. The /pedes 1026 in the nofes of Iheep. 

 The /pedes 1028 lodges during the winter in 

 the intellinal tube, or the throat of horfes, nor 

 can it be driven out till the fummer comes on. 

 T^ay in/e^s themfelves are often furrounded 

 with the eggs of other infeds, infomuch that 

 there is fcarcely an animal to be found, which 

 does not feed its proper infeft, not to fay any 

 more of all the other places, where they de- 

 pofit their eggs. Almoft all the eggs of in- 

 /eEls^ when laid, are ordained to undergo, by 

 a wonderfull law of nature, various metamor- 

 phofes, e. g. the egg of the butterfly being 

 lai4 in the cabbage firfl of all becomes a cater- 

 pillar^ th^t feeds upon the plant, crawls, and 

 has fixtecn feet. This afterwards changes int© 

 a fiymph^ that has no feet, is fmooth, and eats 

 nothing -, and laflly this burfls into a butterfly^ 

 that flies, has variety of colours, is rough, 



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