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try, and the No&urnal are ftill more 

 numerous. But as thefe infe&s have 

 nothing remarkable but the variety of 

 their colours, and as verbal defcriptions 

 can convey but very loofe and inade- 

 quate ideas of thefe particulars, I ihall 

 not defcend to a minute account of 

 them. — There are many perfons ad- 

 vantageoufly employed in this Colony, 

 in catching and preferving thefe infe&s 

 for fale in Europe. To preferve the But- 

 terfly, when caught, its body is lightly 

 touched with a hair pencil, dipped in 

 fpirit of turpentine, and it is then fixed 

 by two or three pins, ftuck through its 

 body, to a box, among a variety of o- 

 thers, of different kinds, difpofed ac- 

 cording to their colours, in elegant or- 

 der. The fpirit of turpentine is necef- 

 fary, not only to preferve the body from 

 putrefaction, but to prevent its being 

 devoured by the Ants, which in this 

 country would othervvife happen. 



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