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dexterity with which they accomplished it. 

 They incrusted the whole snail with glue, and 

 cemented it so close, that all the external 

 air was excluded, and as no insect could 

 have access, to deposit her eggs in the car- 

 cass, so, when this should be reduced to cor- 

 ruption, no malignant steams would trans 

 pire through the inclosure. 



SwAMMERDAM drew the mother of a swarm 

 of Bees by one of her legs with a small bit 

 of thread fastened to a long pole ; the whole 

 swarm immediately assembled round the end 

 of the pole to cover the mother Bee. This 

 swarm was carried wherever he pleased in 

 pursuit of the pole. 



A man w^ho called himself the Bee's 

 master, doubtless was in possession of the 

 mother Bee ; and from the natural attach- 

 ment of the Bees to her, he conducted them 

 as he pleased. 



" Tell me, ye studious, who pretend to see 

 Far into nature's bosom, whence the Bee 



