compared and confidered. 295 
Performance, done by the mod; able Matter, 
feems, when brought to Examination, as 
ttiapelefs, uncouth, and barbarous, as if writ¬ 
ten in Runic Characters. But the little Specks 
on the Wings or Bodies of Moths, Beetles, 
Flies, and other Infedls, are found, when 
magnified, to be mod: accurately circular : 
and all the other Lines and Marks about 
them appear regularly and finely drawn, to 
the utmoft Podibility of Exadtnefs. 
Dr. Power fays, he faw a golden Chain 
at Tredesc ant’s, of three hundred Links, 
not more than an Inch in Length, fattened 
to, and pulled away by, a Flea. And I 
myfelf have feen very lately, near Durham - 
Yard in the Strand, and have examined with 
my Microfcope , a Chaife (made by one Mr. 
Boverick, a Watch-maker) having four 
Wheels, with all the proper Apparatus be¬ 
longing to them, turning readily on their 
Axles; together with a Man fitting in the 
Chaife; all formed of Ivory, and drawn along 
by a Flea without any fseming Difficulty. I 
weighed it with the greateft Care I was able, 
and found the Chaife, Man, and Flea, were 
barely equal to .a fingle Grain. I weighed 
alfo, at the fame Time and Place, a Brafs 
/ Chain made by the fame Hand, about two 
Inches long, containing two hundred Links, 
with a Hook at one End, and a Padlock and 
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