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near the verge, quite to the bottom. In this case 

 the animal attacks it again in the same way, and 

 is not often discouraged by five or six miscarriages ; 

 but continues its struggles so long that it at length 

 gets it over the verge of the place. When it has 

 done this, it does not leave it there, lest it should roll 

 in again j but is always at the pains of pushing it 

 farther on, till it has removed it to a necessary dis* 

 tance from the edge of the pit. 



The insect, in a perfect state, is but seldom 

 found : it is, however, sometimes to be met with in 

 sandy places and near rivulets. It is marked in 

 Dr. Turton's translation of the Systema Nature, as a 

 native of this country, but I have never yet heard of 

 any one's discovering it, 



