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'shed fniin \ 

 ill-stances in which we can Mippose a person in the 



sounding tip in. Vet I 

 many indistinct approximations l> 

 and VCgi tabl.'s, \ lilsive !' tin- r 



petni^ link-. Tims tli ! an many 



animals \\hirli . '"i-pid as tin- in. 



part of vegetables: and a^ain, then ome 



v. hich M em almost t-> trench upon tin- 



prop !' animaN, ly tlu-ir p cnliar motion on 



being suddenly irritated ; thus, tin- Diona.i Mu-- 



cipnla, or \'mn.N'- Fly-Trap, an American plant, 

 well known to all who are con\er>ant with the 

 M -it nee of Botany, i^ fnrnishod with leaves pos- 

 sessed of so strong a degree of irritability, as to 



(online, by their Midden contraction, any -mall 

 animal which happens to alight upon them; and 

 the 1 1( (ly->arnm gyran-, an 

 the papilionaceous or pea-bloom tribe, >. 

 possess a kind of voluntary m'-ii'-n in the -mall 



the ba-e of the la 

 I hoWe\er, the di-Un. 1 



u animals and too strikin 



admit of any hi ->it at ion, and it would be a mere 

 <!' time, in the -ho: tu ouc prey 



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