OF INSECTS IN GENERAL. 
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objects on which they alight, feem employed, like the 
fnovtt of a hog, in i'earching ior food, and examining die 
quality of the different kinds ot fuftenancc by which tiny 
are fupported. The beetles, and other tribes whole puipi 
are large, are proper fubje&s for examining the organs of 
fmell in this clals of beings ; and an accurate inveftiga 1 - 
tion of their manners would probably juftify the forego- 
ing conjectures with regard to the ufes of the feelers, and 
determine how far they poffefs this fenle. 
The organs of vifion among mod. kinds of infers are 
large ; a circumttance which has put their fenle of fee- 
ing beyond a doubt. The eyes are commonly two in 
number, each frequently confiding of a congeries or al- 
femblage of lentes, covered with a cruftaceous tranfparent 
fubftance, to protect them from injury. The organs 
which have been allotted to hearing and fmell, are aifo 
protected from duft, and the fmaller particles of thofe 
fubftances to which they are applied : Their extremities 
are not patulous, but ciliated, like thofe of the mole, to 
prevent them from being clogged or injured by the in- 
trufion of furrouuding objefts. Hence it appears, that 
though inlefts are deltined to fill a fubordinate llation in 
the animal kingdom, yet nature has by no means ne- 
gkaed them, but furnifced them with organs wonder- 
fully adapted to their humble purfuits, and to that tran- 
sient exigence which the has alligned them. 
