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NATURAL HISTORY 
BUTTERFLY, 
This beautiful insect comes from a cater- 
pillar, after having undergone a variety of 
changes. When first it comes forth, its 
wings seem like to moist, or wetted paper, 
from which certain small watery drops 
distil, and which are well worthy of obser- 
vation ; in the space of half an hour they 
become expanded, and fit. for Hying. It lives 
on honey, which it sucks out of sweet flow- 
ers, &c. It is much delighted with corrupt 
fruit; for the sake of which, there arc often 
desperate battles fought between some of 
these species. 
