The celebrated Butler has alfo commemorated the 
fame circumftance in his poem of Hudibras, viz. 
“ How many fcorcs a flea will jump 
Of his own length, from head to rump; 
Which Socrates and Chaerephon 
In vain aflay’d fo long agon.” 
The Flea, like many other infers, is eminent for 
its powers of revivefccncc, and will frequently re¬ 
cover, after being placed in fituations highly unfa¬ 
vourable to animal life. I might here mention the 
experiment of an ingenious friend, who allures me 
that on immerging a flea in a vial of water, after 
being apparently drowned, and lying upwards of 
twenty-four hours, it has again revived on expofure 
to warm air. Some of the coleopterous infects are, 
however, capable of exhibiting far more (hiking 
examples of fufpended animation. 
I fhall conclude the description of this locomo¬ 
tive little infect by the following jeu d’efprit, rela¬ 
tive to a flea which a lady is fuppofed to have kept 
in a ftate of captivity. The reader will find the 
original in that truly claflical publication the Car- 
mina Quadragelimalia. Oxon. 1723. 
Corinna, in a fportive vein, 
A fav’rite Flea approves: 
And faften’d by a golden chain 
The little captive moves. 
Not Juno view’d with more delight 
Her peacock’s train difplay’d : 
Not Venus more her fav’rite dove 
In changing plumes array’d. 
With 
