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(that being the Way of killing and preparing thent 
for my Purpofe) and in a few Minutes it appeared to 
be quite dead : Whereupon I (hut it up in a round 
Pill-box of about an Inch and half Diameter, and 
carried it in my Pocket next Day to London^ where 
I toffed it into a Drawer, and thought no more of it 
for above Two Months after j when, opening the Box, 
I found it, to my great Surprize, alive and vigorous; 
though it had nothing to eat for all that Time, nor 
received any more Air than what could be met with 
in fo fmall a Box, whofe Cover Ihut very clofe. 
Having, however, no Intention of keeping it alive, I 
again plunged it into Spirit of Wine-t and let it lie 
confiderably longer than the Firft time, till fuppofing 
it dead beyond any Pofllbility of Recovery, I put it 
into the faid Box again, and locked it in my Drawer, 
without looking any more at it for a Month at lead, 
when I found it again alive.—— And now I began 
to imagine there mud be fomewhat extraordinary in 
this Creature, lince it could furvive the Force of 
Spirit of Wine, which foon kills mod other Infers, 
and live for Three Months, without taking in any 
Sudenance. 
A few Days before this, a Friend had fent me 
Three or Four Cock- Roches, or as Merian calls them, 
Kakkerlaca, brought alive from the Weji-Indies ; 
Thefe I had placed under a large Glals of Six or 
Seven Inches Diameter, made on purpofe to obferve 
the Transformation of Caterpillers : And now I put 
my Beetle amongd them, that he might enjoy a 
greater Share of Liberty than he had done for Three 
Months before. I fed them with green Ginger 
moidened in Water, and they eat it greedily; but I 
L I 1 could 
