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and liv'es upon honey. What can be more 
worthy of admiration, than that one, and the 
fame animal ftould appear on the ftage of life 
under fo many characters, as if it were three 
diftind animals a . 
The laws of generation of worms are ftill 
very obfcure, as we find they are fometimes 
produced by eggs, fometimes by offsets, juft 
in the fame manner as happens to trees. It has 
been obferved with the greateft admiration, 
that the polypus or hydra S. N. 221. lets 
down fhoots and live branches, by which it is 
multiplied. Nay more, if it be cut into many 
parts, each fegment, put into the water, grows 
into a perfed animal ; fo that the parts which 
were torn off are reftored from one fcrap, 
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The multiplication of animals is not tyed 
down to the fame rules in all ^ for fome have 
a remarkable pow T er of propagating, others are 
a Linnaeus Amaen. academ. vol. 2. in a treatife on the 
wonders relating to infers, fays, “ as furpriling as thefe 
“ transformations may feem, yet much the fame happens 
“ when a chicken is hatched, the only difference is, that 
“ the chicken breaks all three coats at once, the butterfly 
“ one after another. 
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