452 
own its a good piece take it in general, and shows a good poetick 
genius, but perhaps no grammarian.” 
“ And as you have given me a piece of poetry on Marriage, I send 
you a piece on Love — the prelude to that honourable Institution.” 
Whether this “ piece ” was Arderon’s own composition, I have no 
means of knowing. The following fragment occurs amongst his 
MSS., which may possibly be the offspring of his mind : — 
“Farewell to Norwich. 
Mode on the Road to Bury. 
“ Farewell at length, the proud insulting spot, 
Where gentle ease and manners are forgot ; 
Where lawless Pride, with supercilious state, 
Assumes importance and is oddly great. 
Farewell, the busy round so much admired, 
Of country routes where ” 
The earliest traces of his microscopical labours are a series of 
“ Observations on Animalculas.” “ These observations were 
chiefly made with small Glass Spheres.” The forms he studied, or 
rather, attempted to study, were those found in infusions, and as 
these require the highest powers of our best modern instruments, 
his researches were of but little value. A few years later on, when 
he became possessed of one of Cuff’s best microscopes, he was able 
to do some good microscopic work. 
Mr. Baker gives a very elaborate description of “ an insect with 
net-like arms, and which might perhaps have remained long un- 
known, had it not been discovered accidentally by the same 
ingenious searcher into nature, to whom the reader is obliged for 
many curious Articles in this Volume.” * This insect was found in 
the Cascades, at the Seat of Benjamin Nuthal, Esq., at Framing- 
ham in Norfolk, on the 25tli of May, 1746. Amongst the MSS. 
in my possession is the draft of a second letter to Mr. Baker, 
■written three years afterwards. This letter enabled Mr. Baker to 
complete his description. It is as follows : — 
“ On the 10th of July, 1746, I described, and sent you a 
drawing of, an aquatick Insect which I discovered on the 25th of 
May foregoing, in a Cascade of Ben. Nuthal, Esq., at Framing- 
ham, the singularity of which induced me to endeavour several 
• Employment for the Microscope, p. 337. 
