Mr. Ray 5 * Dying-Words. jyf 



tlumble Soul, I could not but have thefe comforta- 

 ble Thoughts, that what was thus declared remitted 

 upon Earth, would be remitted in Heaven alfo. 



After this I gave him the Sacrament of the LoM's 

 Supper, which as it is Men's Duty often to receive, 

 in the time of Health, To at the Hour of Death, he 

 faid, it was a neceflary Viaticum he thought for th* 

 great Journey he was now a going. 



Note concerning Kemies and Vegetable 

 ExcrefcenceS; Pag. 109, u6 } 151. 



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I Have with great Care 'endeavoured to hatch the 

 Kermes, and moft of the Vegetable Excrefcences 

 which I have met with about XJpminfler, and have 

 conftantly found that they were the Produftion of 

 fome or other of the Ichneumon- Flies. In my Phyfim- 

 theology. Book 8. Ch.tf. I have given divers Exam- 

 ples of the Prpdu&ion of the Vegetable Excrefcences. 

 And as to thefe artificial and curious Thecx on the 

 Branches of Trees, old Ropes, &c. called Kermes % 

 all that I have met with I have always found to be the 

 Cells of a finall Icbneumon-Flie, compofed of fome 

 Gums, or glutinous Matter, wrought with incompa- 

 rable Curiofity^ to cover over and fecure their Eggs : 

 In which one thing is admirable > and that is their 

 great Sagacity in making their Cells, or Caftsj of the 

 lame Colour with the thing on which they are fix'd j 

 by which means they fo dodge the Spectator's Eye, 

 that it is not eafy to difcoyer the Kermes, without a 

 very &xi£t Infpe£tion. 



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