LETTERS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 57 
galleries instead of having portable garments. 
These make great havock among the bees, and 
brave, under this covering, all the stings of that 
people of warriors. They do not seek the honey, 
but the wax. 
These ingenious insects are all small ; but who 
will say that they are therefore unworthy our 
attention? When the Author of all being has 
deigned to form and preserve them in so won- 
derful a manner, and in such infinite variety, is 
it excusable in us to treat his works with indif- 
ference ? Are we worthy to inhabit a world so 
full of wonders, when we hardly take the trouble 
of opening our eyes to see it ? I hope you will 
think differently, and turn your admiration from 
the comparatively coarse and imperfect works of 
art, to the exquisite and truly beautiful scenes of 
nature. 
Believe me, &c. &c. 
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