SPHINXi 457 



The fphinx atropos, when hurt, has the power of utter- 

 ing a difmal and melancholy cry, like a moufe j owing, 

 as is fuppofed, to the violent rubbing of fome of its fcaly 

 members. There are forty-feven different kinds of thefe 

 animals. 



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