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F and G gives you the Inftruments v/hkhnhe Fly 
has upon his Head, and vAth which, accordi^-^to my 
opinion, he gathers his Food, and brings it into his 
Body; 
I forgot to obferve whether the part I, which is the 
Tail, be arm'd with a Sting or pointed Inftriiment. 
By A Q.P O B is fhown two great and two httle 
Wings, which is full of abundance of Hairs, as well 
upon the Flies as the Circumference of 'em. 
R R R, &c. reprelent the fix Legs full of Joynts, 
and cover d with Hair, at the end of which I could 
difcover no Claws 5 and becaufe the Limner judged 
that the ends of the Hairs, which covered the extremi- 
ties of the Feet, were little Weerhaakjensy he has in 
fome manner reprefented them. 
S T V reprefents a little Silver Inftrument, to which 
the Fly, being dead, was faftened, for it tvouid have 
been irnpolEble to have defcribed the Fly if it had been 
aliver 
Now if we obferve the wonderful Formation of fuch 
a fmall Creature, and how fuch a Fly is produced, and 
then confider that the Worm which is chang'd into the 
Fly, and we imagine that fuch a thing will not hap- 
pen, unlefs the Worm that comes out of the Egg of 
the Fly, makes ufe of another Creature for its Food, 
we muft remain perfeftly amazed. 
Now I faw many dead Creatures lye about in the 
Tube from whence no Flies were produced, and from 
whence I did not imagin that any Flies would come, 
believing I had not handled them foft enough, and 
that therefore they were dead, but about a fortnight 
after I faw feven Flies leaping about the Glafs, which 
alfb remained but two days alive, and were of a quite 
different make from the other Flies, for their Bodies 
were fhofter than thofe of the other Creatures*. 
After 
