galed with ices when the thermometer has stood at 

 112",) to makfe an attempt of profiting by so very 

 ihort a duration of cold during the nights, in these 

 months, and by a well timed and critical contrivance 

 of securing this momen/tary degree of cold, they have 

 procured to themselves a comfortable refrethment as a 

 recompence, to alleviate, in some degree, the intense 

 heats of the summer season, which, in some pans of 

 India, would be scarce supportable, but by the afsis- 

 tance of this and many other inventions. I am, Sir, 

 with regard, your most obedient humble servant, 



R. B. 



ON THE LIFE OF A FLEA. 

 Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



15r inserting the following instance of the duration 

 of the life of a flea, in your excellent IVtiscellany, 

 you will much oblige, Sir, your humble servant, 

 and admirer 



Caithnefs '\ 

 July 1793. S Lycurgus. 



Oil the duration of the life of a flea., by Borrichius. 

 From the acts of Copenhagen'. ■« 



Pliny represents to us a Greek philosopher, whose 

 occupation, for several years together, was to mea- 

 sure the space fliipped over by fleas. Without giv- 

 ing into such redicailous researches, T can relate an 

 anecdote which chance discovered to me in regard to 

 ilr.it i)is'>ct. Beingsent for to attend a foreign lady, who 



