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Malpighi, and feveral other celebrated writers, 
inform us, that “ Infects take particular care to 
“ depofit their eggs or feed, in fuch places where 
“‘ they may have a fufficient incubation, and where 
«the young, when hatched, may have the benefir 
“of proper food, tillthey become able to fhift for 
“ themfelves; thofe whofe food is in the water, lay 
‘‘ their eggs in water ; thofe to whom flefh is a proper 
** food, in flefh; and thofe to whom fruits, or leaves 
“‘ of vegetables are food, are accordingly depofited, 
« fome in this fruit, fome on that tree, fome on one 
“plant, and fome in another, but conftantly the 
** fame kind in the fame plant; as for others that 
* require a more conftant and greater degree of 
« warmth, they are provided by the parent animal 
“« with fome place in or about other animals; fome 
“‘in the feathers of birds; fome in the hair of 
“ beafts; fome in the fcales of fifhes; fome in the 
** nofe, fome in the flefh; nay, fome in the bowels 
“ and inmoft recefles of man, and other creatures. 
«* And as for others to whom none of thefe modes 
“‘ are proper, they make them nefts by perforation 
“ in the earth, in wood, and the like, carrying in 
“ and fealing up provifion that ferves both for the 
“ production of their young, and for their food 
“when produced.” CHAMBERS. 
Granting the above to be true, it may not be un- 
reafonable or unnatural, to fuppofe fome infect may 
depofit 
