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there may be probably Thoufands of Species 
never feen by an human Eye 
Amongft the fmaller Animals, the little 
Creature I am about giving an Account of 
has I believe hitherto efcaped Obfervation ; 
and might perhaps have (till continued long 
unknown, had it not been difeovered acciden t-* 
ally, by the fame ingenious Searcher into Na¬ 
ture, to whom the Reader is obliged for 
many curious Articles in this Volume, and 
whofe Defcription of it I can depend upon, 
though I have not met with it myfelf. 
In a Letter now lying before me, dated 
July 10th 1746, he writes me Word, that 
on the 25th of the Month of May preceding, 
going to the Seat of Benjamin Nuthal, Efq; 
at Framingham, in Norfolk, he had the 
Pleafure there of feeing feveral Cafcades, 
fupplied with Water from the Side of an 
adjacent Hill, and affording a moil charm¬ 
ing Profpedt: and that as he was there at¬ 
tentively obferving one of the Conveyances 
belonging to the Cafcades, through which 
the Water ran extremely fwift, he difeerned 
at its Bottom feveral fmall Infedts, Handing 
eredt upon their Tails, and refembling when 
all together the Combs of Bees at the Time 
they are filled with their Aurelias • but on 
touching them, they immediately feparated 
and difperfed. However he took up many 
of them in a Bottle with fome Water, in or¬ 
der to examine them at Leifure; and looking 
at' 
