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fo clear, as one fees a Mite, we fhou’d be more fur- 
priz’d I believe at their Figures, than we are at that 
of a Mite: In (hort, the fmallnefs of the Parts, of 
which all Bodies are compofed and fet together, is fo 
very Minute, that it is not to be conceived by 
Man. 
Afterwards there was brought to me an earthem Vef- 
fel, in which there was fome Flower of Wheat, which 
had been about 14 Days in my Houfe 5 in which my 
Servant Maid, who is very fharp-fighted, faw a great 
many Mites running about. I took fome of ’em, and 
view’d ’em thro’ a Microfcope ; but I cou’d not per- 
ceive, tho’ I view’d ’em very nicely, thofe jointed Parts 
which are as it were cover’d with Hairs, and are 
upon the Body and Feet of the Mites, and which are 
fo (mall, that they feem themfelves to be nothing but 
Hairs j and yet I view’d feveral of thefe Mites, and but 
once only I doubted whether I did not fee thofe little Hairs 
that are upon the hairy Parts. The Parts of the afore- 
faid Mites, which appear’d to be Hairs behind upon the 
Body, were not near fo long as thofe of fome other 
Mites that I had taken out of the dryed Bladder of an 
Ox .* And tho’ thefe Mites were dead, yet I cou’d per- 
ceive upon thofe Parts that pifs’d for Hairs, other and 
much fmaller Hairs. 
From which Obfervation I confider’d, that as the 
Flies, which we judge to be of one fort, are notwith- 
standing of very different Kinds 5 for fome of them 
' lodge their Eggs in Flefh, others in Cheefe, others a- 
gain in Dung $ and accordingly the Worms that are 
hatch’d from thefe Eggs, receive their Food and Growth 
from the feveral Subftances in which they lye$ fo like- 
wife among the Mites, there be fome that live upon Flefh, 
and others again upon Meal or Bread. 
For my farther Satisfaction, I went to a Grocers Shop, 
and out of a lit le Barrel took fome Figs that were of 
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