
NATURAL HISTORY. 
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PART III. 
INSECTS. . 

THEIR GENERAL NATURE, 
Doermiriox Passi Infeéts are fmall animals, 
breathing through vent holes, arranged along their 
fides, and provided with a fkin, of a bony nature. 
Their body is compofeéd of a head, trunk, limbs and 
abdomen. 
FoRM AND STRUCTURE....,Not having occafion 
to fly far, they are not made fo fharp before as birds: 
But their wings have fufficient ftrength and attivity 
to conquer all the refiftance they meet with, in their 
fhort pafiage through the air. Having neither bones, 
fiefh nor fkin, as in other animals, they are covered 
with a curious coat of mail, which both guards and 
ftrenethens the body, while it renders the infect more 
_ adapted to the purpofes of feeking its food, and per- 
forming every other function of itsbeing. 

_ Eyes anp ANTENN#.....The eyes of the fiy 
trfbes are two little crefcents, or immoveable Caps, 
