% THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
‘© with four wheels, and all the proper Apparatus belong- 
<<‘ ing to them, turning eafily on their axles ; together 
* with a man fitting in the chaife.; all formed of i ivory, 
«and drawn along by a flea, without any feeming diffi- 
<< culty: And weighing it with the greateft care, found the 
« chaife, man and flea, were barely equal to a fingle grain. 
' «© At the fame time and place, he alfo weighed a 
<¢ chain of brafs made by the fame hand, about two in- 
<<‘ ches long, containing 200 links, with an hook at one 
<¢ end, and a’padlock and key at the other, and found it 
<¢ Jefs than the third part of a grain. 
<¢ And fince that, (made by the fame Artift) he faw a 
ee quadrille-table, with a drawer in it, an eating-table, 
é© fide-board table, a looking-glafs, twelve chairs, with 
< fkeleton backs, two dozen of plates, fix difhes, a dozen 
<< of knives, and as many forks, twelve fpoons, two 
“< falts, a frame and caftors, together with a eentleman, 
'¢¢Jady, and footman, all contained in a cherry-ftone ; 
¢¢ and not filling much more than half of it. | 
&¢ He likewife mentions one.O/wald Nerlinger, who 
<¢ made a cup of apepper-corn, which held twelve hun- 
<¢ dred other little cups, all turned in ivory, each of them 
<¢ being gilt on the edges, and ftanding upon a foot, and 
<¢ that fo far from being crouded, or wanting room, the 
“¢ pepper-corn could have held four hundred more. — 
mss And then adds, thefe are fome of the niceft, moft 
<¢ curious and furprizing works of art, but let us examine 
‘¢ any of them with a good microfcope, and we fhall be 
<¢ immediately convinced, that the utmoft power of art 
** is only a concealment of deformity, and impofition 
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