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CHAPTER XI. 
THE FOUR-HORNED CYCLOPS, OR SMALL WATER FLEA. 
Cyclops quadricornis.— Miller. 
Monoculus quadricornis.—Linné. 
Pediculus aquaticus.— Baker. 
The Author of Nature, to whom all things are 
alike easy of execution, as if intending to teach 
man a lesson of humility, and that no part of 
creation, however minute, is beneath his con- 
sideration, has conferred on those animals, that 
are barely perceptible to our unassisted vision, 
more elegance and variety of form, more rich- 
ness in their colouring, and more beauty and 
exquisite finishing, than on the whale or 
the elephant, which mainly excite our admira- 
tion by the magnitude of the mass = living 
matter they present to us. 
The little crustaceous animals, which form the 
subject of this chapter, may be found at all 
seasons of the year near the surface of the 
