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clifts of trees, or holes in their trunks, as vipers^ 

 fnakes, cantharides. Some are fecured in the 

 caverns of mountains, in fubterraneous abodes and 

 the cellars we make, as fpiders, flies, muikitoes, 

 naked fnails, and beetles. Others find a genial 

 warmth in dunghills during the rigour of win- 

 ter. The bottom of waters, and the bowels of 

 the earth above all, give flielter and retreat to 

 moft reptiles and infefls. Yet, in the whole of 

 thefe afylums, though fufficiently defended from 

 the fatal effeds of cold, they fufFer from its influ- 

 ence in the mofl fenfible manner. Their limbs 

 become torpid, and they r.emain in a lethargic 

 flumber the whole winter. 



But among quadrupeds, birds, nay, perhaps, 

 among fifhes, there are fome that experience a 

 kind of lethargic torpidity not unlike that of 

 reptiles and infedts. To fay nothing of frogs, 

 toads, lizards, and the like, among quadrupeds 

 which dwell in water or in the earth all the win- 

 ter, hedgehogs, land tortoifes, feveral rats, the 

 marmot and dormoufe, are alfo overcome by le- 

 thargy. Some in fociety, and fome in folitude, 

 conceal themfelves in the trunks of trees, or are 

 hid in the earth. Cold has the fame influence 

 on bats ; they are found fliif and motionlefs in 

 hollow trees, or the rents of walls, or hanging to 

 the vaults of fubterraneous caverns. 



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