W^^m- Of the J^ood of the Death Watch. 
I have already i that the young Dcath-PVafches feed 
upon dead Infed?, id tht fame 1 have feen the old ones 
do ; Ito, as alfo upon divers other things, viz^ Bisket,. 
Tallow, ^e, nay, Dnfl it feif (although it may feem to us 
an iniproper Food for fuch Animalcula) dcth not efcape 
the Palate of our Death-^Watcld» For which reafon pro- 
bably it is, that they delight tnoft indufty places, not in 
all, butfuch as are fouled with light Diift, fuch as flyeth 
in fweeping, and falleth on Shelves, and other places 
feldom bruihed down. 
But tn this their eating D///?, there is one thing I have 
obferved^ which to me feems very remarkable, viz. their 
curiofity in chooftng ii:. For they do not eat all that they 
meet with, but are very nice, and curious in felefting 
what fuiteth beft their Palate* I have feen them turn the 
buft, and hunt among it with great pains and diligence. 
From hence ( conclude^ that our Death-Watch^ and other 
Creatures too that eat Duft, are not nourifiied by the 
pure terrene particles of Duft, but rather by more nutri* 
tive particles intermixed with Earth. For Duft contains 
very different particles, feme of Earth, fome the Powder 
of Animals, fome Crumbs of Bread, Cbeefe &nd other Pro* 
vifioos reduced to Powder, fome particles of Fruit?, or 
our Spittle, Snot, e^^:. dryed and reduced in like manner 
to Powder. Now thefe very Panicles of tfce Duft, are 
doubtlefs v/hat the Deatk^Watch hunteth after (like Ducks 
In Mud) when he turneth up, and diveth among heaps 
of Duft. Nay, fo far probably is his Food from being 
corrupted, or fouled by the terrene particles, that it is 
perhaps better prepared, by thus being in Duft. Before 
in a Mafs, in the body, it was more folid, and required 
the trouble of being gnawed out and mafticated, hue be- 
ing thus in Powder, it is ready fubtilized fit for deglutition- 
And 
