W A K I N G LEAF. 
The suggestion of Edwards, as to the change 
of this singular insedt, with regard to it's hue, 
is certainly ingenious ; but we do not clearly 
perceive the ground on which he has erected 
his conjedlure. Whether he built it on anv 
thing which he perceived in the thing it- 
self, or on what he had read or been told, 
we are equally at a loss to guess. Some 
foundation, he cenainly had; but, from the 
mere inspection of the objedt, we cannot pos« 
siblv form the same conclusion. Indeed, we 
confess, that it seems to us by ho means in- 
dispensably necessary to the security of the 
insed:: which, we almost suspedt, was the 
true foundation of Edwards's idea^ who well 
knew, and we also recognize, how yerv pro- 
vident nature is constantly found in tlie re- 
quisite presen atlon of all her offspring. '1 he 
appearance of a dead leaf,- however, scattered 
here and there in a tree,, for we do not nmi 
that the inset5l is very common, cannot be 
'!^ouc;ht so unusual a sigi.t, as to imply, to 
the most sagacious bird, tlie presence of an 
'n<cv5l on which it might prey. 
W'c should disdain to cavil at any thing ad- 
vanced 
