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blackith fcaly feathers. Between thefe, one 
may perceive how the Butterfly rolls its trunk, 4, 
which it fome time after wards hides between the 
forks. In the thorax, the two upper wings cc 
prefent themfelves, which are.almoft every where 
covered with white little feathers, and in feveral 
places are variegated with thinner, feather-like 
yellow fcales: even the black fpots, which adorn 
theirextremities, are compofed of fimilar {mall fea- 
thers. Whe fame likewile isthe condition of the 
two under wings, dd. Six legs likewile appear, 
eeee, which are increafed to a much greater 
length than they had either in the:Caterpillar, or 
in the Butterfly, drawn out of that skin: but in 
this laft change of the skin, the legs are increafed 
no more; fince they have already acquired their 
full bignefs in the Chryfalis. Laftly, the tail 
and abdomen are feen covered with their rings, 
hairs and feathers, f/ It is likewife obfervable, 
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that all thefe colours may be wiped off the wings 
in {uch amanner, that only athin, delicate, and 
tran{parent membrane remains. And now, can 
any perfon, who rightly confiders thefe divine 
miracles, help admiring them, and agreeing, that 
they are moft truly fach? Indeed this remark- 
able hiftory very ftrongly evinces, that the moft 
wife and merciful God, is manifeftly known 
from his vifible works: fince thofe inftances of 
this power which are remote from our fight, be- 
come evident from thofe we fee; that the eter- 
nal nature of God is therein difplayed clearer than 
the meridian fun. Their offence therefore is 
inexcufable, who have either lived inftructed by 
the law of nature only, or have known the law 
of Mofes, and the gofpel of Chrift; for, ac- 
cording to thefe, all men fhall be judged, and 
fhall be either abfolved or condemned. 
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Of natural changes, or flow accretions of the limbs. 
¥ ¥ AVING now explained the more fimple 
# 4 and intelligible modes or methods of thefe 
changes, I {hall proceed to the compound, and 
more obfcure, which feem indeed wholly in- 
comprehenfible; but in reality, all the infeéts of 
this fourth order, of which I am now to treat, 
the changes of which I have hitherto .obferved, 
are changed into real Nymphs, entirely like thofe 
of the firft {pecies or method of the third order, 
Therefore we may refer all the Nymphs be- 
longing to this fourth order, to the Nymphs of 
the firft mode of the third order: for though the 
Nymph of the fourth order, does not fo clearly 
exhibit its limbs to view, as that of the firft and 
fecond order; yet they are more diflin@ly vi- 
fible, than in the Chryfalis belonging to the lat- 
ter mode of the third order. Hence this Nymph 
mutt be rightly and properly reckoned among 
thofe, which I have delineated and defcribed 
under the firft method of the third order; fince 
the former exhibits its limbs as clearly as the 
latter. 
To thofe who examine this Nymph more ac- 
curately, there likewile occurs a confiderable and 
important difference, which confifts in this, that 
this creature does not caft its skin, but is. changed 
within it, and without parting with it, into a’ 
Nymph. Hence it is, thaton account of this 
difficulty of diftinguithing the partsof this Nymph, 
I am obliged to add a fourth order, to compre- 
hend this peculiar kind; though in reality the 
intrinfic Nymph of this fourth order, is exactly 
like the external Nymph of the third order, and 
is of the fame nature and difpofition with the 
latter, without any difference. 
In order to place this matter in as a clear 
a light as poflible, it is neceflary to obferve care- 
fully, that even in the worms, which undergo 
the changes of this fourth order, the limbs in- 
creafe flowly under the skin, in the fame manner 
as in the already mentioned Nymphs of the 
third order; and are there difpofed in like man- 
ner and order under the skin, as they are found 
arranged under it, in the Vermicles or Worms of 
the third order; but there is, however, a con- 
fiderable difference, by which, as by a criterion, 
or cettain fign, one may diftinguifh thefe two 
Nymphs of the different orders from each other. 
It. confifts in this, that the Nymphs of the fourth 
order do not at all exhibit to view their limbs, 
nor make them vifible at any time: for, as the 
Vermicles, or Worms, which are changed into 
Nymphs of the third order, caft their skins, 
and afterwards prefent to outward view all their 
limbs and parts, which had been before hidden 
under them; on the other hand, the Vermicles 
er Worms belonging to this fourth order, do not 
caft, but retain the faid skin. And hence, as 
the Nymphs of the third order, when they are. 
afterwards about to put on the form of real 
Nymphs, caft only one skin; thefe interior 
Nymphs of our prefent fourth ordef, at the fame 
time caft off two skins or membranes, whereof 
the outer is much thicker than the inner. ‘This 
is what conftitutes the eflential difference I have 
named, between the Nymphs of the third and 
thofe of the fourth order, which are perfectly 
alike in all other refpects. 
It is very wonderful here, that fome of the 
Vermicles, or Worms, which are referred to 
our fourth order of changes, preferve their 
original and external form entirely unaltered ; 
whilft, on the other hand, others in great part 
lofe it. But thefe, though they do thus far de- 
viate from them, yet they never entirely lofe 
all the marks of the former Vermicles, or 
Worms; for they retain, as it were, the figure 
of Vermicles, or Worms: and in this very 
figure, or, to {peak more forcibly, in their pro- 
per fkin, which they do not caft off, they be- 
come immoveable ; and there fhooting out new 
limbs, they at length put on the form of real 
Nymphs, 
ye 
