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little hills, horfes, cows, fheep, ditches, dun^ 

 hills, and every offenfive object. Some (m) are 

 found on all forts of flowers, particularly thofe 

 of a foetid fmell. Many (n) of thefe are moft 

 eafily taken when they begin to feed for in the 

 middle of the day they are fo quick and active, 

 that it is almoft irnpoflible to catch them. 



VII. The laft great divifion [o) contains 

 fcorpions, fpiders, crabs, lobfters, &c. It is 

 necelTary only to obferve here, that all kinds of 

 infects having no wings may be preferved in 

 fpirits, brandy or rum, except crabs, lobfters, 

 and the like, which may conveniently be pre- 

 ferved dry. 



Under each clafs of infects, I mall relate 

 the methods of killing them the moft readily, 

 and with the leaft pain, as the purfuit of this 

 part of natural hiftory hath often been branded 

 with cruelty and however reafonably the na- 

 turalift may exculpate himfelf by pleading the 

 propriety of fubmitting to an evil, which leads 

 to ufeful difcoveries, yet for wanton cruelty 

 there never can be a juft pretext. 



—The poor beetle that we tread upon, 

 In corp'ral fufferance finds a pang as great 

 As when a giant dies (/>). 



I. The firft clafs, confuting of beetles (coleop* 

 tera) are hard-winged. Many kinds fly about 

 in the day, others in the evening, fome at night 

 only. They may be caught with a gauze net, 



(m) Tipula. Conops. Afilus, moafp-fy. («) Bombylius, 



Jloiver- breeze. 



(o) APT ERA, from without, and <n\i$h a wing, 

 infedts having no wings, as the fpider, fig. 7. 

 (f) Shakefpeare's Meafure for Meafure. 



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