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without any appearance of fufFerir g pain. Reaumur 

 one day cut off the flefliy and mufcular horn of a 

 large caterpillar, which continued to feed as if no 

 mutilation had taken place. Is it poffible to think, 

 that beings fo tranquil in the hands of children and 

 philofophers, endure any feeling of pain when they 

 are gobbled down in the air by the birds ? 



Thefe obfervations might eafily be extended 

 much farther : particularly to that clafs of fiQies, 

 which have neither bone nor blood, and of thefe 

 confift the greateft number of the inhabitants of 

 the Seas, and they appear to be equally void of 

 fenfibility. I have feen, between the Tropics, a 

 tunny, from the nape of whofe neck one of the 

 failors fcooped out a large flice of the flefh, with 

 a ftroke of the harpoon, which was forced back- 

 ward to his head, who followed the fhip for feveral 

 weeks, and was outdone by no one of his compa- 

 nions, either in fpeed or in fiifkinefs. I have feen 

 fharks, after being ftruck with mulket bullets, re- 

 turn to bite at the hook from which they had juft 

 before efcaped, with their mangled throat. 



We fliall find, befides, a greater analogy be- 

 tween filhes and infecfls, if we confider that neither 

 have bones nor blood ; that their flefli is impreg- 

 nated with a glutinous liquid, and which likewife 

 appears to be the fame in both, from it's emitting 



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