194 curious phenomena in matural history. Oct. Gs 
' knows it has suffered enough from the different moe 
difications of those distempers, the present mania is 
the most alarming; as ‘no protefSion of faith can save | 
the unhappy victims from the murderous fraternity, 
who dance like wild Sybels round the tree of blood, 
baptising it in that crimson fluid, with the fair name 
of liberty. 
To turn then the thoughts of your readers from 
scenes of so much horror, and to raise their minds to 
that Supreme Being,’so much despised by yout more 
than Gothic neighbours, to whom I apply the motto 
of my paper, I fhall give a few of the most striking 
outlines of a subje&t, the best calculated of all others 
to raise admiration, whilstit is one of the most amu- 
sing that exists to a rational being,——I mean the woz~ 
ders of the creation. 
Yt has been with much pleasure that I have ob- 
served some occasioral little extracts in the Bee, 
from the history and ‘instinct of the larger animals : 
put there are still other branches of natural history, 
which offer, like the one you have already taken up, 
a wide field of innocent and instructive amusement. 
‘The branches I allude to, are those of zmsects, with 
the history, habits, and something like instinct of 
plants , subjects which are as rich in curious matter 
and entertainment, as any in the whole range of hu« 
man knowledge. 
As a beginning then to such papers in your useful 
miscellany, I give here an introductory fketch, com- 
‘piled from authors, on botany and entomology; which 
if not new to the learned few, who make these 
a 
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