» The Defeription, or Anatomy of the Bees 
pecially the breaft, and far excels what the greateft 
matter in that art can pretend to. 
How infinitely then do the fecret beauties of nature 
tranfcend and furpafs thofe ofart; whith curioufly ex- 
amined, charm every ingenious mind, filling it with an 
inexprefible delight and pleafure ! 
What is all the pageantry, fplendour and glory of ani 
earthly court, to nature’s fimple drefs and fecret beauties; 
far more moving and entertaining ! 
If King Solomon in all his glory was not gore like 
a fingle blade of grafs, or a fower; how much lefs like 
one of thefe curious infects ! 
Examine the fingft and moft exquifite performances 
of human art, and compare them with the produdtions 
of nature, and how exceeding great will the difference 
appear! and by how many degrees hath nature the pre- 
heminence ! 
«¢ The fting of a Bee, viewed thro’ a microfeope; 
<¢ fhows every where a polifh moft amazingly beautiful, 
‘¢ without the leaft flaw, blemifh, or inequality, ending 
“¢ in a point too fine to be difcerried ; yet this is only the 
*¢ cafe, or fheath, of two other inftruments much more 
‘ exquifite, contained therein. 
** Dr, Power tells us, he faw a golden chain at Tre- 
‘© defcant’s, of 300 links, not more than an inch in 
** length, faftened to and pulled away by a flea. 
“And Mr. Baker fays,* he faw near Durham-yard 
** in the Strand, (which he examined with his microf- 
“© cope) a chaife, made by Mr. Boverick a Watch-makers 
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