STUDY I. 3 



tranfcends my higheft powers. Permit me to re- 

 late, on what occafion I became fenfible of this. 



One day, in Summer, while I was bufied in the 

 arrangement of fome obfervations which I had 

 made, refpedting the harmonies difcoverablc in 

 this Globe of ours, I perceived, on a ftrawberry 

 plant, which had been, accidentally, placed in my 

 window, fome fmall winged infeds, fo very beau- 

 tiful, that I took a fancy to defcribe them. Next 

 day, a different fort appeared, which I proceeded, 

 likewife, to defcribe. In the courfe of three weeks, 

 no lefs than thirty-feven fpecies, totally diftind, 

 had vifited my ftrawberry plant : at length, they 

 came in fuch crowds, and prefented fuch variety, 

 that I was conflrained to relinquiOi this fludy, 

 though highly amufing, for want of leifure, and, 

 to acknowledge the truth, for want of expreifion. 



The infedls, which I had obferved, were all di- 

 ftinguifhable from each other, by their colours, 

 their forms, and their motions. Some of them 

 flione like gold, others were of the colour of filvcr, 

 and of brafsi fome were fpotted, fome ftriped ; 

 they were blue, green, brown, chefnut coloured. 

 The heads of fome were rounded like a turban, 

 thofe of others were drawn out into the figure of a 

 cone. Here it was dark as a tuft of black velvet, 

 there it fparkled like a ruby. 



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