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 of them are put into a glas, placed in a dark room, you may ee ditinctly any object there; or by holding a book cloe to the glas in which they are, you may ee plainly to read the mallet print.

There is another quality remarkable in the fire flies, which is, that everal of them being killed and mahed together will produce the ame effect, and be as viible in letters marked out on the walls of a dark room, as if done with artificial phophorus; and this for a coniderable time after the flies are dead.

The loggerhead fly is a pecies of the moth, from which it differs only in the uncommon largenes of its head, and a ingular quality of tranparency in its body; which latter is very remarkable, for placing this fly near to the light of a candle, you may plainly ditinguih every part of its vitals, and ditinctly count every movement of them. The