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Description Of The Terrestrial Chrysipus,
The size of the body of a Cbrysipus varies according to it ' s different species . - " "• . ' I know two species only * differing in extent almost one-naif ; which , for distinction sake , I call the whole Cbrysipus . The latter of these is by no means so valuable as the former . I have not , after the minutest observation , been able to settle , this be reall animal
with any degree of certainty , whether y an or a vegetable , or whether it be strictly neither , or rather both . For as I have , by the help of my microscope , discovered some of it s parts to resemble those of a lion ; I have , at other times , taken notice of something not unlike the fower-de-luce . On their extremity ( if they are not very old ) , may be seen certain letters , forming have been almostinclined
the names of several of our kings ; whence I to conclude , that these are the flowers mentioned by Virgil , and which appear to have been so extremely scarce in his time . —What has principally dissuaded me from an opinion of it ' s being an animal is , that I could never observe any symptoms of voluntary motion : — butindeedthe same be said of an oyster-which I think is not
, , may , yet settled by the learned to be absolutely a vegetable . But though it hath not , or seems not , to have any progressive motion of it > own ; yet it is very easy to communicate a motion to it . Indeed some persons have made them fly all over the town with great velocity . - What is said of the Polypusby a learned writer of the last age ,
, is likewise applicable to the Cbrysipus : — " They make use of their progressive motion , when communicated to them , to place themselves conveniently , so as to catch their prey . —They are voracious animals ; they lay their snares' for numbers of small insects ;—as soon as any of them touches one of
them it is caught . But then it differs from the Polypus in the consequence : for , instead of making the insect it ' s prey , it becomes itself a prey to it ; and instead of convey ing an insect twice as large as it ' s own mouth into . it , in imitation of the Polypus , the poor Cbrysipus is itself conveyed into the loculus , or pouch of an insect , a thousand times as large itselfNotwithstanding whichthis wretched animal ( for
as . , sol think we may be allowed to call it ) is so eager after it ' s prey , that if the insect ( which seldom happens ) makes any resistance , it summons other Chrysipi to it ' s aid , which in the end hardly ever fail of subduing it , and getting into it ' s pouch . A CHRYSIPUS , by the single contact of my own finger , has so closely attached itself to bandthat by the jointand indefatigable labour
my , , of several of my friends , it could by no means be severed , or made to quit it ' s bold . I have some of them , that have greatly multiplied under my eyes , and of which I might almost say , that they have produced young
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Description Of The Terrestrial Chrysipus,
The size of the body of a Cbrysipus varies according to it ' s different species . - " "• . ' I know two species only * differing in extent almost one-naif ; which , for distinction sake , I call the whole Cbrysipus . The latter of these is by no means so valuable as the former . I have not , after the minutest observation , been able to settle , this be reall animal
with any degree of certainty , whether y an or a vegetable , or whether it be strictly neither , or rather both . For as I have , by the help of my microscope , discovered some of it s parts to resemble those of a lion ; I have , at other times , taken notice of something not unlike the fower-de-luce . On their extremity ( if they are not very old ) , may be seen certain letters , forming have been almostinclined
the names of several of our kings ; whence I to conclude , that these are the flowers mentioned by Virgil , and which appear to have been so extremely scarce in his time . —What has principally dissuaded me from an opinion of it ' s being an animal is , that I could never observe any symptoms of voluntary motion : — butindeedthe same be said of an oyster-which I think is not
, , may , yet settled by the learned to be absolutely a vegetable . But though it hath not , or seems not , to have any progressive motion of it > own ; yet it is very easy to communicate a motion to it . Indeed some persons have made them fly all over the town with great velocity . - What is said of the Polypusby a learned writer of the last age ,
, is likewise applicable to the Cbrysipus : — " They make use of their progressive motion , when communicated to them , to place themselves conveniently , so as to catch their prey . —They are voracious animals ; they lay their snares' for numbers of small insects ;—as soon as any of them touches one of
them it is caught . But then it differs from the Polypus in the consequence : for , instead of making the insect it ' s prey , it becomes itself a prey to it ; and instead of convey ing an insect twice as large as it ' s own mouth into . it , in imitation of the Polypus , the poor Cbrysipus is itself conveyed into the loculus , or pouch of an insect , a thousand times as large itselfNotwithstanding whichthis wretched animal ( for
as . , sol think we may be allowed to call it ) is so eager after it ' s prey , that if the insect ( which seldom happens ) makes any resistance , it summons other Chrysipi to it ' s aid , which in the end hardly ever fail of subduing it , and getting into it ' s pouch . A CHRYSIPUS , by the single contact of my own finger , has so closely attached itself to bandthat by the jointand indefatigable labour
my , , of several of my friends , it could by no means be severed , or made to quit it ' s bold . I have some of them , that have greatly multiplied under my eyes , and of which I might almost say , that they have produced young