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The anatomy of the common diurnal and variegated Butterfly. 
APE BOB, 
TH E hiftory Iam about to give, under the 
fecond mode of the third clafs or order 
of natural changes, is fo amazing in all its cir- 
cumftances, that it might very well pafs for a 
romance, were it not built upon the moft firm 
foundations of truth. Facts alone fupport it ; 
fo that, how much foever our comprehenfion 
may fall fhort of the things to be related, we 
mutt affent to them notwithftanding ; and we 
fhould ftudy them alfo, as fome of the moft 
fhining miracles of God’s power and goodnefs. 
In this hiftory we fhall fee moft furprifing 
changes in the limbs of thefe infects, growing 
under one another, that anatomy has ever dif- 
covered; fuch changes, indeed, as no human 
wit could contrive, or could even think of, 
had not God, the great Author of thefe won- 
ders, been gracioufly pleafed to reward our 
induftry with the difclofure of them. In this 
hiftory we fhall behold a poor and wretched 
infect lofe by degrees all motion, and, in ap- 
pearance, ftand configned to death and the 
grave; in which feemingly hopelefs condition, 
however, all its former limbs acquire an ex- 
traordinary degree of perfection, till, at laft, 
tifing from the fepulchre in all the gaiety and 
magnificence of the richeft ornaments, and 
moit refplendent colours, it no longer continues 
a reptile, creeping upon the earth; but, foar- 
ing into the air, changes its flow and heavy 
pace into the moft nimble and unreftrained 
flights. 
This creature, in its painful and humble 
ftate of life, fupports itfelf with crude and 
undigefted food; and, ordinary as this refrefh- 
ment is, the infect is obliged to earn it with 
much labour and danger: but when freed from 
the jaws of death, and after paffing through a 
fecond infancy, the pureft nectar becomes its 
portion, and the air its element. It raifes it- 
felf boldly. toward the fkies, and roves at 
pleafure from meadow to meadow, and en- 
joys, without care or concern, the exquifite 
juices which bounteous nature has prepared 
for its ufe, and prefents it from the unful- 
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lied cups of the moft fragrant and beautiful 
flowers. 
It has now put off its old body; and the 
entrails, which were before fupplied with 
coarfe food by the painful operation of the 
teeth, and which digefted this food by a vio- 
lent trituration of the ftomach, are become 
more tender, delicate, and fine, fo as only ta 
fuit a more pure and elegant aliment: and 
often the happy creature is enabled to live 
feveral months fucceffively, without the leait 
want of nourifhment. 
To fum up all thefe wonders in a few 
words, the creature, that heretofore crept upon 
the earth, now flies freely through the air; 
fips its food, inftead of chewing it; and, far 
from creating our averfion by its frightful 
prickles, and foul appearance, it attracts our 
admiration by the moft elegant fhape and 
cloathing ; and from being fcarce able to move 
upon the humbleft fhrubs, acquires ftrength 
and agility to tour in its lofty progrefles, far 
above the talleft inhabitants of the foreft. 
All thefe furprifing, and indeed almoift in- 
comprehenfible changes, from indigence to 
affluence, from contempt to glory, from labour 
to eafe, will be amply defcribed in the follow- 
ing hiftory, and every one may eafily under- 
ftand how they can happen, and are actually 
effected. 
By comparing thefe ftrange viciffitudes with . 
the wretchednefs of our own prefent life, our 
death, and refurrection; and examining like- 
wife the caufes of our mifery, and the beft 
methods of fubduing, and even eradicating in 
ourfelves, the latent feeds of decay and de- 
ftruction, in order to prepare our fouls and 
bodies for a glorious refurrection ; we fhall, 
befides the moft innocent and becoming plea- 
fure, reap very confiderable and lafting advan- 
tages, by being powerfully excited to praife 
God, without intermiffion, as he deferves, 
from thefe furprifing effects of his wifdom and 
power, now clearly laid open to our in- 
{pection. 
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