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round the head of the infect; and contain a great 
number of minute eyes, crofling each other in the” 
form of lattice work. Curious obfervers relate that 
_ they have counted feveral thoufands in each combi- 
nation, Lewenhoek calculated as many as 8009. ‘The 
caufe of their eyes being fo numerous, is to fupply 
the defect of vifion arifing from their eyes being 1m- 
moveable. Uhus infects have eyes in every direction. 
How admirable mutt their fight be, which enables 
them to difcern objects, with their innumerable quan- 
tity of eyes, with as little confufion as other animals | 
do with two! Their antennz are finall horns, pro- : 
jeCcting from their head, in fuch a manner as to pre- — 
ae the fight of fo many. fixed. eyes from being in- 
jured. 
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Morion......he admirable mechanifm in thofe 
that creep, the curious oars of thofe that fwim, the — 
incomparably formed feet of thofe that walk, the — 
{trength and elaftic force of thofe that leap, and the 
talons of thofe that dig, afford the moft ample matter 
for contemplating the endlefs wifdom of the Creator. 
Each is particularly adapted to the kind of motion 
peculiar to the refpective infect; which is exemplified 
in the grafshopper, water beetles, crickets, &c. To | 
render their progrefs through the air as eafy as pof- | 
iible, infects are provided with wings, formed of the» — 
lighteft membranes, and the fineft articulations. To 4 
poife the body, fome have four wings ; while fuch as — 
have only two, haye pointals, or poifes, under each 
wing. | 

Parts.....Infeéts are compofed of joints, mufcles, | 
tendoms and nerves ; with eyes, brain, ftomach, en- 
trails ; and with every other part of an animal body. © 
low 1s the mind abforbed in wonder, when it confid- — 
ers that the fmallef animalcula, which the microfeope — 
can only render vifible, is pofleffed of all the above © 
related parts! May we not, therefore, fay with Ga- © 
jéa, when fuch exquilite workmanfhip appears in the 7 
minuteft infect, what muft be the wifdom employed | 5 
by the Almighty in forming the more noble parts of - ; 
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