The Young Ladys book a Manual of Elegant Recreations Exercises And Pursuits
The Young Ladys book a Manual of Elegant Recreations Exercises And Pursuits
Gilbert Mcintosh
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APTERA. The best example of this order, which is the sixteenth, is the Common Flea. When examined with a microscope, it will be ob- served to have a small head, large eyes, and two short four-jointed antennae, between which is the trunk, or proboscis. The body is enveloped in a shelly armour that is always clear and bright: this is beset, at the segment, with many sharp bristles. All its motions indicate agility ; and its muscular power is so extraordinary, as justly to excite our wonder. We kn...ow no other animal whatever, whose strength, in proportion to its size, can be put in competition with that of a flea ; for, on a moderate computation, it is able to leap to a distance of, at least, two hundred times its own length ; it will drag after it a chain a hundred times heavier than itself; and, to compensate for this force, will eat ten times its own weight of provisions in a day. Mr. Boverich, an ingenious watch-maker, who, some years ago, lived in the Strand, exhibited a little ivory ENTOMOLOGY.
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