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better notion than figures can convey will be obtained of 
this feat by supposing a lad of fifteen to be imprisoned 
Oryetes maim on. 
under the great bell of St Paul’s, which weighs 12,000 
lbs., and to move it to and fro upon a smooth pavement 
by pushing within. 
Mr Newport has given other instances of insect-power 
equally remarkable. Having once fastened a small kind 
of Cardbus , an elegantly formed Ground Beetle, weighing 
three and a-half grains, by a silk thread, to a piece of 
paper, he laid a weight on the latter. At a distance of 
ten inches from its load, the insect was able to drag after 
it, up an inclined plane of twenty-five degrees, very nearly 
eighty-five grains ; but when placed on a plane ot five 
degrees’ inclination, it drew after it one hundred and 
twenty-five grains, exclusive of the friction to be overcome 
in moving its load, as though a man were to drag up a 
hill of similar inclination a waggon weighing two tons and 
a half, having first taken the wheels off. 
