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the force and size of all the insect tribe. 

 Had man an equal degree of strength, bulk 

 for bulk, with a Louse or Flea, the history 

 of Samson, would be no longer miraculous. 

 A Flea w411 drag after it a chain a hundred 

 times heavier than itself; and to compensate 

 for this force, will eat ten times its own 

 weight of provisions in a day. 



Mr. Boverick, an ingenious watchmaker, 

 who some years ago lived in the Strand, 

 London, exhibited to the public, a little 

 ivory chaise, with four wheels, and all its 

 proper apparatus, and a man sitting on the 

 box, all of which were drawn by a single Flea. 

 He made a small Landau, which opened and 

 shut -by springs, with six horses harnessed to 

 it, a coachman sitting on the box, and a dog 

 between his legs : four persons were in the 

 carriage, two footmen behind it, and a pos- 

 tillion riding on one of the fore horses, which 

 v.as also easily drawn along by a Flea. He 

 likewise had a chain of brass, about two inches 

 long, containing two hundred links, with a 

 hook at one end, and a padlock and key at 

 the other, which the Flea drew very nimbly 

 a long. 



