NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
INSECTS. 
CHAPTER I. OF INSECTS IN GENERAL. 
Sect. I General idea of the number and variety of In- 
feEis : Inducements to the ftudy of Rntymology . Hiftory 
of this Science , 
We are now to enter upon that department of Natural 
Hiftory which treats of Infefts ; by the ftudy of which, 
we are conducted into a province the motl extenfive, 
and by far the moft populous, of the whole empire of 
nature. This refidence of quadrupeds, as we have feen, 
is confined to the land ; that of fifties to the water ; while 
birds are enabled to rife from the furface of thefe ele- 
ments into the aerial regions. Nature, however, has 
aftigned a ftill more extenfive range to thole animals 
upon whofe hiftory we are now to enter. They are 
found to pervade every part of her dominions, in num- 
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