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Way to an* extenfive Scene of Knowledge ; and led 
to a Series of Obfervations, in which there will be 
found an almoft inexhauftible Store of Delight and 
Admiration. The Mo fTes, in particular, one of the 
mod beautiful Parts of the vegetable Creation, will 
afford the curious Obfcrvcr more Matter of Enter- 
tain ment than perhaps any other Clafs of it. A 
Specimen of which I do myfelf the Honour of com- 
municating to you in this Letter. 
The particular Obfervations it contains, though 
new and furprifing, you will allow unqueftionable 
in Fa Ct and Certainty, when I add, that they are 
what i have not only often repeated myfelf, but 
have alfo fhewn to Mr. Baker, Dr. Barfons , and Mr. 
Needham , Gentlemen of too nice Eyes, and too 
conversant in Obfervations of this kind, not to have 
difeovered Miftalces, if there had been any ; and 
who all agree, that no Difcovery by the Microfcope 
was ever clearer. 
The Manner of feeding of the Moffes in general 
is a Thing perhaps as little underftood, as any Part 
of the vegetable Syftem : What I have to offer here 
is the explaining and deferibing it clearly, in one 
Species at leaft, from a Number of Obfervations 
made on it in its different States, and at different 
Seafons of the Year. 
The thorough Knowledge of the Operations of 
Nature in the Seeding of one of thefe little Plants, 
may, I hope, be a fair Step to the difeovering it in 
them all. And the almoft infinite Variety of not 
only Species, but Genuss , in this Clafs of Vegetables,, 
feems to promife the Inquirer a vaft Variety of new 
Difcoveries. 
I (hall 
