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from the earth on which they fit ; but by be- 

 ing of an , earthy colour, and drawing their 

 heads clofe to their bodies, they appear like 

 rude clods of earth, and deceive the eyes both 

 of man and beaft, by which means they are pre- 

 ferved frpm deftrudion. 



CHAP. 



