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perennial: They multiply incredibly, 

 vying even with the fifhes in their in- 

 creafe. Reaumur informs us, that one 

 female bee can yeariy depofit in the 

 hive forty thoufand eggs ; the fame 

 author alfo difcovered in one fly two 

 thoufand young ones : their ftructure, 

 wonderful mechanifm, and fhape, dif- 

 play the perfeclion of the all-wife Cre- 

 ator ; in the beauty of their colours, 

 they are not inferior to the finefr. ani- 

 mals andflowerSjtoinftancetheBupRES- 

 *ris ignita, Papilio, Priamus, Helena, 

 Menelaus, and moft of the Indian but- 

 terflies, and thofe kind of moths called 

 Tinece. It is therefore matter of admi- 

 ration that the Englifh and French 

 nobility, who are curious in this parfc 

 of natural hiftory, have not conftru&ed 

 hot-houfes for the Indian Lepidoptera, 

 iu which they might fubiiit duringthe 

 winter, as they are undoubtedly more 



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