THE 



NATURALIST'S and TRAVELLER'S 



COMPANION, &c. 



PART the FIRST. 



SECT. L 



The Method of catching and preferving 

 Infe£is for Collections. 



Ten thoufand different tribes 

 People the blaze. To funny waters fome 

 By fatal inftind fly. 



-—Through the green-wood glade 



Some love to Itray ; there lodg'd, amus'd and fed^ 

 In the frefti leaf. Luxurious, others make 

 The meads their choice, and vifit every flower^ 

 And every latent herb, (a) 



INSECTS in general are known to moft peo- 

 ple, the fyftematic diftin£tions but to few ; 

 nor have we any Englifh names for the greateft 

 part of them. The general denomination of 

 beetles, butterflies, moths, flies, bees, wafps, 



{a) Thomfon's Seafons, Summer, 1. 246. 



B and 



