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put other laCedcSifich as Gatterpillarsj hffi able to defend 
themfelaes^to what ferviccy and ufe thep pleafi, makjno 
their Bodjs Nurferies of their Toung^ 
Numbef. 51, 
The CMierpillar of the table * Feeds of vvilde 
Aurach 5 and is of the ( Green ) colour of the Plant § its 
very flow in eating and creeping^ and every . way a flug- 
gift Animal 1 .- It carts its (kin like Serpents, or the Silk- 
worme foure times, and had four feverall (bapes, upon 
its carting its (kin 5 which happened thus/ vize, When it 
had don eating, out of the body of the CatPerpillar cmiQ 
a not»very-littIe worme, fomewhat fiat, and ftaped like a 
Fle^ maggot ithQ worme crept (orth the i2th. Febrn^ 
ary^p about foure in the after noon, this Worne incelTantly 
crept upland down Without eating or drinking for Four- 
teen Hours 5 but in the mean time by little and little loft 
its colour, and its (kin grew harder, for defence perhaps 
againft ihe cooloefsof the aire and enemies? and now 
creeping no longer, it ro!d its bent body, and put on an 
obfeure colour, and then languifting, k Teemed to fall 
of eating, but not greedily the next day it feemed to 
Die, there being no Ggnes of life, or motion in its but it 
continually refted til! the later end of'Septe^nberiKt which 
rime esme forth a Fly^ rarely to be met with s with longi(h 
Iegs,and flat feet : I believe this an Amphihtom creature, 
and to live in the Water as well as in the Aire 1 this Fly 
hada great Head, of an unufuall ftape, it laid mofty on 
its back, and therefore I have him s heeatno^ 
thing that lofieredhim, and died the 3^. of oUoher^ 
If will be a hard matter^ for any man to makg finceof 
this Hiftory, and undoubtedly the diUgmt Author, had 
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