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acknowledge my fufpeding that it has Eyes 
fomewhere within its Wheels : and my Rea- 
fqns for this Sufpicion are, its blundering, ir¬ 
regular, and flow Motions while it appears 
in the Form of a Maggot, before its Wheels 
are put out, and the Regularity, Swiftnefs* 
and fteady Direction of its Motions after¬ 
wards : whereto I might add, that when it 
fwims along its Wheels are always out. Be- 
lides, all the Creatures we know that move 
themfelves from Place to Place with Swift- 
hefs, either by running, flight, or fwim- 
ming, are remarkable for their Keennefs of 
Sight; and indeed it feems probable that 
the fame Rule may hold through all the 
Animal Creation : for as the Gifts of Pro¬ 
vidence are ever fuited to the Exigencies of 
its Creatures, and contrived in the belt Man¬ 
ner for their Prefervation, we can fcarcely 
imagine Swiftnefs is beflowed on any with** 
out the additional Blefling of Sight to dired: 
its Courfe ; flnce the former without the lat¬ 
ter muft unavoidably precipitate the Creature 
into continual Danger of Deftrudlion*.—'This 
makes me fuppofeit may poflibly have Organs 
of Sight fomewhere about the Wheels : nor 
is there any thing more extraordinary in that 
than in the Eyes of Snails, which are gene¬ 
rally allowed to be placed at the Extremities 
of their Horns, and confequently muft be 
thrufl: out and drawn in with them. 
I cannot conclude this Subject without 
doing all the Honour I am able to the Me- 
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