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The Natural Hiftory of the Book III. 
The Body of this, as well as of the following ones, is decked witha 
Profufion of Beauty: And all, in the Words of the great Milton, 
~ eee ee wave their limber Fans 
For Wings, and /malleft Lineaments, exatt 
In all the Liv’ ries deck d of Summers Pride, 
With Spots of Gold and Purple, Azure and Green. 
Should any one impertinently ask, What Ufe thefe are of in the Crea- 
tion ? it may be anfwered, in the Words of the ingenious Mr. Ray, that 
they are defigned ad ornatum univerfi, & ut hominibus [pettaculo fint ; ad 
rura illufiranda, velut tot brattea, infervientes. Quis enim eximiam earum 
puleritudinem & varietatem contemplans mira voluptate non afficiatur ? 
Quis tot colorum & [chematum elegantias nature ipfius ingenio excogitatas, 
& «artificii penicillo depittas, curiofis oculis intuens, divine artis veftigia eis 
imprefja non agnofcat & miretur ? 
The Wuitre Burrerrty. 
HIS exactly refembles the laft defcribed, in every Particular, 
except its Colour. 
Ihefe are chiefly to be feen flying about Ponds of ftagnated Waters 
in the moft beaten Roads. 
The DARK-RED BLACK-SPOTTED BUTTERFLY. : 
rE HIS is about an Inch long, from the Head to the Tail. 
Its Antenne are 'Three-quarters of an Inch long; and its Two 
Eyes black, round, and fhining. 
The Wings are of a dirty Red, irregularly impanelled with black 
Lifts; and the Margin or Border of each Wing much darker than the 
reft ; and here-and-there adorned with many white Spots, as well as the 
Head, Back, and Breatt. 
The Abdomen is of a dark ferrugineous Colour, and compofed of 
Seven Annuli. 
The CLINKER, or GULLY-BELL. 
spel is of the Cricket-kind, and derives its Name from the tinkling 
Noife it makes at Night, which much refembles the fhrill Note of 
any mufical Inftrument. 
This Noife, which is repeated Three or Four times without ceafing, 
may, in a ftill Evening, be heard above an Hundred Yards off. 
But as thefe Creatures live generally in inacceffible Gullies, they are 
very feldom, if ever, caught ; and therefore their Shape is known but to 
very few, much lefs the Caufe of fo furprifing and regular a Note. 
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