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and lives upon honey. What can be more 

 worthy of admiration, than that one, and the 

 fame animal (V.ould appear on the flage of life 

 under fo many charaders, as if it were three 

 diftin6b animals *. 



The laws of generation of worms are ftill 

 very obfcure, as we find they are fometimes 

 produced by eggs, fometimes by offsets, jufl 

 in the fame manner as happens to trees. It has 

 been obferved with the greatefl admiration, 

 that the polypus or hydra S. N. 221. lets 

 down flioots and live branches, by which it is 

 multiplied. Nay more, if it be cut into many 

 parts, each fegment, put into the water, growa 

 iHto a perfe6l animal ; fo that the parts which 

 were torn off are reftored from one fcrap, 



§. 13- 



The multiplication of animals is not tyed 

 down to the fame rules in all -, for fome have 

 a remarkable power of propagating, others are 



a Linnaeus Am:en. academ. vol. 2. in a treatife on the 

 wonders relating to infers, fays, ** as furprifing as thefc 

 ** transformations may fcem, yet much the fame happens 

 " when a chicken is hatched, the only difference is, that 

 ** the chicken breaks all three coats at once, the butterfly 

 " one after another^ 



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