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- forts to that end of the cone it has left purpofely light 
enough to admit its pailage to another world of en- | 
joyment. 
By calculation, one of thefe worms will produce: | 
between nine hundred and a thoufand feet of filk at | 
one {pinning ; and fo thin and light in its texture, | 
that the whole weighs no more than 2} grains. And 
as they were particularly formed to furnifh mankind | 
with a fubftance for drefs, that might render us more | 
agreeable to each other, and thus enhance the few 
pleafures of our exiftence, nature has caufed one fly | 
to lay as many as 500egps. How grateful, then we | 
ought to be to the Creator, who thus forms, yearly, 
fuch an infinity of thefe manufa€turers of the moft a- 
greeable and beautitul fubftance the world affords, 
for our array and embellifhment! By this worm, 
grandeur is more enobled, and even royalty itfelf is | 
rendered more majeftic. 
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