40S NOISES OF INSECTS. 



muscular bundles are extended and contracted by the 

 alternate approach and recession of the trunk and ab- 

 domen to and from each other. 



And now, my friend, what adorable wisdom, what 

 consummate art and skill are displayed in the admira- 

 ble contrivance and complex structure of this wonder- 

 ful, this unparalleled apparatus! The Great Cre- 

 ator has placed in these insects an organ for producing 

 and emitting sounds, which in the intricacy of its con- 

 struction seems to resemble that which he has given to 

 man, and the larger animals, for receiving them. Here 

 is a cochlea ; a meatus ', and, as it should seem, more 

 than one tym-panum, 



I am^ &c. 



