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Its reviving fo often after being feemingly killed 
by Spirit of Winet fhews a Strength of Life I never 
found in any other Infed : Some Kinds, indeed, will 
come to Life again, if taken out as foon as they 
appear dead 5 and the Ear-wig^ in particular, after 
continuing fo fome Minutes ; But half an Hour in 
Spirits puts a final End to the Life of all the InfeSts 
1 ever tried, except this Beetle. 
It walks not much about under the Glafs that 
covers it, but is ufually found with its Nofe thruft 
clofe down to the Bottom thereof, perhaps to fuck 
in the Air. On removing the Glafs, it appears robuft 
and vigorous, and would willingly run away. A 
ftrong aromatic kind of Smell ifi'ues from it, agree- 
able enough when there is not too much of it j and 
the fame Scent hangs about the Fingers a long while 
after touching it. Since the Weather has been fo 
cxcefiive cold, it is grown fomewhat torpid 5 but till 
now has always appeared as lively in cold as in hot 
Weather, and I have obferved its Smell to be fironger 
in Winter than in Summer. In the exhaufted Re- 
ceiver, where I have kept it fometimes for half an 
Hour, it feems perfedly unconcerned, walking about 
in Vacuo as briskly as in the open Air 5 but, upon 
Admillion of the Air, it Ihrinks its Legs together, and 
appears in a Surprize for near a Minute. 
We know the Egyptians had a high Veneration 
for the Beetle^ by their many Images thereof, 
which are dill preferved in the Cabinets of the Cu- 
rious, and Hiftorians tell us it was one of their 
Deities : But, as the Egyptians were a wife and learned 
People, we cannot imagine they would fhewfo much 
Regard to a Creature of fuch a mean Appearance, 
without fome extraordinary Reafon for fo doing : 
