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mon Dor, or Clock, almoft devoured alive by them ; little except his 

 fhell remaining ; yet, in this ftate it lived feveral days. There were 

 a number of (mall brown bags affixed by pedicles to its breaft, thighs, 

 and even feet; the microfcope difcovered thofe to contain each an 

 embryo, and the pedicle, no doubt, anfwered the part of an umbilical 

 chord, to extract nourifhment from the living creature. I per- 

 ceived on further infpeclrion their bafe penetrated the fhell, or entered 

 the apertures. 



Fig. I. Natural fize of the Tick and Embryo. 



Fig. 2. The upper fide, and Fig. 3= under fide, magnified. 



Gradual, from thefe what numerous kinds defcend, 



Evading even the microfcopic eye ! 



All Nature fwarms with life ; one wond'rous mafs 



Of Animals or Atoms organized, 



Waiting the vital breath, when Parent Heaven 



Shall bid his Spirit blow. — — — — — • 



_ — — — Thefe, conceal'd 



By the kind art of forming Heaven, efcape 

 The groffer eye of man : for, if the worlds 

 In worlds inclos'd. fbould on his fenfes burft, 

 From cates a'mbroSal, and the neflar'd bowl 

 He would abhorrent turn ; and in dead night 

 When filence fleeps o'er all, be flunn'd with noife. 



Thomson's Seasons. 



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