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iince, than by providing ourfclvcs with the 

 Uhellula^ which devours them, as the kite does 

 poultry. We oftentimes find our largeft trees 

 entirely ftrippcd of their leaves by the cater- 

 pillars of tiie moth kind, &:c. but when we 

 fearch after them we find they are all eat up 

 by the larger kind of cc.tahi called fycophant<£ ; 

 from whence we may learn, that there is no 

 remedy more efficacious in our gardens, where 

 leaves, flowers, and fruits are almoil every 

 year deftroyed by thofe caterpillars^ than ga- 

 thering and preferving the above-mentioned 

 carahi till they lay their eggs, and then placing 

 them at the roots of trees in rotten wood, 

 till they are hatched. And thus we lliould 

 effedually guard our trees from thefe inhof- 

 pitable guefts. 



§. 14. 



But if we do not think it worth oui' while 

 for any other reafon to turn our attention to 

 the works of nature, yet furely for the glory 

 of the great Creator we ought to do it, fmce 

 in every plant, in every infedt we may o.bferve 

 fome fingular artifice, which is not to be found 

 in any other bodies -, and upon comparing 

 O 2 thefe 



