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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

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THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE: OR, GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 1
LETTER II. From a Gentleman at PHILADELPHIA to his Friend in GLASCOW, on the Subject of FREE MASONRY. Article 3
OF COURAGE, FORTITUDE, and FEAR. Article 5
MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS OF NAPLES. Article 8
A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE FAITHFUL LODGE, No. 499, Article 11
ORATION ON MASONRY, Article 16
ESSAY ON STRIFE. Article 23
AN EASTERN NOVEL. Article 25
THE GENERAL HISTORY OF CHINA: Article 30
HISTORICAL DEDUCTION OF THE BRITISH DRAMA. Article 33
THE SPEECH OF COUNT T****, Article 36
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 38
REMARKS ON PULPIT AND BAR ORATORY. Article 38
COUNT LARGORYSKY. Article 39
THE PROPHECY OF SIBILLA TIBURTINA. Article 41
THE PROPHECY OF SIBILLA TIBURTINA ON OUR SAVIOUR. Article 43
CHARACTERS IN HARRY THE EIGHTH'S TIME. Article 44
OF ANIMALS LIVING IN SOLID BODIES. Article 46
MEMOIRS OF FRANCIS LORD RAWDON, Article 50
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 55
AN EXTRAORDINARY ANECDOTE OF GENERAL PUTNAM. Article 58
THE BASTILE OF SAXONY. Article 59
Untitled Article 61
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL CUMBERLAND FREEMASONS' SCHOOL. Article 62
THE CHARACTER OF SALADINE, Article 66
DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRESTRIAL CHRYSIPUS, Article 69
ON HAPPINESS. Article 72
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 74
SADLER's WELLS. Article 75
DUNKIRK, NOW BESIEGED BY THE DUKE OF YORK. Article 76
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 77
POETRY. Article 80
SYMPATHY TO DELIA. Article 81
AN IMPROMPTU. Article 81
THE DESERTERS. A TALE. Article 82
A LETTER FROM A LADY DYING TO HER HUSBAND. Article 83
THE SWEETS OF FRIENDSHIP. Article 83
ACROSTIC. Article 83
FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. Article 84
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 85
Untitled Article 87
Untitled Article 87
Untitled Article 87
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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

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