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furnished with organs appropriately adapted. 

 And it may he reasonably conjectured, that the 

 testaceous covering of some of them is merely the 

 hardened clothing of the chrysalis. If this 

 suggestion he loholly or partially true, a new 

 and grand field of discovery is laid open to the 

 curious and diligent inquirer into the micro- 

 scopic works of animated nature. 



The restitution, also, of forgotten fragments 

 of intelligence may, in like manner, occasionally 

 produce helps in every branch of scientific know- 

 ledge. And although it may not strictly apply 

 to our immediate subject, the classical scholar 

 ivill learn with pleasure, that the late discovery, 

 by Dr. Maii, of an unpublished piece of Cicero 

 was known, more than a century since, to our 

 illustrious countryman, Sir Thomas BrowJi ; 

 who in his Bibliotheca abscondita, among other 

 rarities mentions, *' Marcus Tullius Cicero, his 

 Geography, as also a part of that magnified piece 

 of his De Republica, very little answering the 

 great expectation of it, and short of the pieces 

 under the same name, by Bodinus and Tholo- 

 sanus." 



