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served ; for ants go right forward to their hills, and 

 bees do admirably know the way from a flowery 

 heath two or three miles off to their hives. It may be, 

 gnats and flies have their imagination more mutable 

 and giddy, as small birds likewise have. It is said 

 by some of the ancients, that they have only the 

 sense of feeling, which is manifestly untrue ; for if 

 they go forth right to a place, they must needs have 

 sight ; besides they delight more in one flower or 

 herb than in another, and therefore have taste : and 

 bees are called with sound upon brass, and there 

 fore they have hearing ; which sheweth likewise, that 

 though their spirit be diffused, yet there is a seat of 

 their senses in their head. 



Other observations concerning the insecta, to 

 gether with the enumeration of them, we refer to 

 that place, where we mean to handle the title of ani 

 mals in general. 



Experiment solitary touching leaping. 

 699. A man leapeth better with weights in his 

 hands than without. The cause is, for that the 

 weight, if it be proportionable, strengthened! the 

 sinews by contracting them. For otherwise, where 

 no contraction is needful, weight hindereth. As we 

 see in horse-races, men are curious to foresee, that 

 there be not the least weight upon the one horse 

 more than upon the other. In leaping with weights 

 the arms are first cast backwards, and then 

 forwards, with so much the greater force ; for the 

 hands go backward before they take their rise. 



