@ THE HISTORY OF BEES, 
(according to naturalifts) a nymph or chryfalis: and re- 
fembles (not a little) an infant wrapped in it’s fwadling- 
cloaths. | 
Now the feveral parts begin to appear, and may be 
eafily diftinguifhed from each other; firft the head, and 
therein the eyes, wherein the colour is obferved firft to 
alter and change to a light yellow, then to a deep dark 
brown, and then to black; afterwards all the other in- 
tegral parts or members, as the legs, the wings, west 
with the other. two divifions. 
What human mind can fully account for thefe myf- 
terious changes, how myfterious js nature in her opera- 
. tions; which not only puzzle and deceive our bodily 
fenfe, but alfo fo far tranfcend our intelle€tual powers! t 
It is difputed. whether the infect actually dies at the 
time of it’s transformation. It is a living creature be- 
’ fore fuch change ; hath it’s peculiar form, furnifhed with 
every member fuitable to it’s nature; and bears not the 
leaft fimilitude to that winged infe&t, which is fubftituted 
in it’s. room, and occupies it’s place. Thus divefted of 
it’s effential parts, muft it not inevitably die ? doth not 
the deprivation of the effential parts neceflarily unply the 
deftruction of the whole ? 
There is a living embryo in the preceeding animal ; 
yet if we regard it’s form and manner of fubfifting, (quoad 
hoc) it actually dies, and gives place to a fucceflor. 
_ At laft having gone thro’ all thefe changes in the {pace 
of 18 or 20 days, it is a perfect Bee: and feeks to dif- 
charge itfelf from a confinement, no longer to be borne, 
Y Ecclef, xi, 5. wr 
