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INTRODUCTION 



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ENTOMOLOGY. 



SECTION I. 



THE pleafure and utility of na- 

 tural hiftory, including its fe- 

 veral branches, is fo great, that it has 

 engaged the attention of mankind from 

 the remotefl period of time : there is 

 fcarce an age but what has contributed 

 fomewhatto its increafe, though iri fome 

 countries it has not been purfued with 

 the like ardour, nor attended with the 

 B fame 



