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which flie flies; and that herbrufhes were double, 

 furnilhed with fine hairs, between which flie emit- 

 ted, and drew back, at pleafure, two claws, fimilar 

 to thofe of a cat, but incomparably fliarper. Thefe 

 claws enable the fly to lay hold of the moft po- 

 liflied furfaces, fuch as the glafs of mirrors, along 

 which you fee them march upward and downward, 

 without Aiding. 



I was very curious to fee in what manner Na- 

 ture had attached two new legs to the body of a 

 fheep, and how flie had formed, in order to put 

 them in motion, new nerves, new veins, and new 

 mufcles, with their infertions. The third eye of 

 the cow perplexed me ftill more. I had nothing 

 for it, then, but, like other fimpletons, to part 

 with my money for the gratification of my curio- 

 flty. The people were coming out in crowds, from 

 the repofitory of thofe wonders, delighted and 

 aftoniflied with their pennyworth. At lafl, I too 

 had the fatisfadion of contemplating the marvel- 

 lous fight. The two fuperfluous legs of the flieep 

 were nothing but two flirivelled pieces of fkin, cut 

 out like thongs, and hanging down from the breafl, 

 but without touching the ground, and incapable of 

 being of any ufe whatever to the poor animal. The 

 pretended third eye of the cow, was a kind of oval 

 wound in the middle of the forehead, without or- 

 bit, without apple, without a lid, and without any 



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