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Description Of The Terrestrial Chrysipus,
ones from all the exterior parts , of their body . I have learned by a continual attention to the two species of them , that all the individuals of these species produce young ones . ' ,, 1 have for . sixty years had under my eye thousands of them ; and though I have OBSERVED THEM CONSTANTLY , AND WITH ATTENTION so as to watch them night and day , I never observed any like the animal
common -copulation . I tried at first two of them ; but these I found would not produce a compleat Cbrysipus ; at least I had reason to think , the operation would be so slow , that I must have waited some years for it ' s completion . U pon this I tried a hundred of them together ; by whose marvelous union ( whether it be that they mix totallike
, those heavenly spirits mentioned by Milton , or by any other process not yet revealed to human wit ) they were found , at the year ' s end , to produce three , four , and sometimes five complete Chrysihi I have , indeed , often made them in that space produce ten or twenty . but this has been by some held a dangerous experiment , not only to the parent Chrysipi themselves , which have by these means been utterllost and
y destroyed , but even to the philosopher who hath attempted it : for as some curious persons have , by hermetic experiments , endangered the loss of their teeth , so we , by . a too intense application . to . this Chrysipean Philosoph y , have been sometimes round to endanger our ears . 4 A Cbrysipus of the larger . kind , may be divided into one and twenty substances whetheranifnal
( : or vegetable we determine not ) every substance being at least as large as the ori ginal Cbrysipus — These may again be subdivided , each of them -into twenty-four ¦ and whatis very remarkable , everyone of these parts is heavier and rather larger . than the UrstCbrysipus . ¦ The onl y difference in this change is that of the colour ; for the first sort are yellow , the second White , and the third resemble the complexion and substance of many human faces .
' These subdivided parts are by some observed to lose , ' in a o-re ? t degree , their adherescent quality : notwithstanding which , Gaultents writes , that from the minutest observations upon his own experience , they all adhered with equal tenacity to his own fino-ers As to the age of the Cbrysipus ( says our " philosopher ) ' it differs extremely ; some being of equal duration with the life of man ; and ¦ some of moment ' existence
scarce a s . The best method of preserving them is , I believe , in bags or chests in loose numbers ; for tuey seldom live long when they are alone , some think , and very proper ] }' , they never can put enough of them together , if they are put into the pocket singly or in pairs , they will last but a very little while—and in some pockets not even a day
. The Cbrysipus is to be looked for in old houses , behind wainscotsand in scrutores ; in searching for them , particular regard is to be had ot the persons who inhabit , or have inhabited in the same houses , by observing which rule , you may often prevent throwing away your labour . They Jove to be rather with old than young
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Description Of The Terrestrial Chrysipus,
ones from all the exterior parts , of their body . I have learned by a continual attention to the two species of them , that all the individuals of these species produce young ones . ' ,, 1 have for . sixty years had under my eye thousands of them ; and though I have OBSERVED THEM CONSTANTLY , AND WITH ATTENTION so as to watch them night and day , I never observed any like the animal
common -copulation . I tried at first two of them ; but these I found would not produce a compleat Cbrysipus ; at least I had reason to think , the operation would be so slow , that I must have waited some years for it ' s completion . U pon this I tried a hundred of them together ; by whose marvelous union ( whether it be that they mix totallike
, those heavenly spirits mentioned by Milton , or by any other process not yet revealed to human wit ) they were found , at the year ' s end , to produce three , four , and sometimes five complete Chrysihi I have , indeed , often made them in that space produce ten or twenty . but this has been by some held a dangerous experiment , not only to the parent Chrysipi themselves , which have by these means been utterllost and
y destroyed , but even to the philosopher who hath attempted it : for as some curious persons have , by hermetic experiments , endangered the loss of their teeth , so we , by . a too intense application . to . this Chrysipean Philosoph y , have been sometimes round to endanger our ears . 4 A Cbrysipus of the larger . kind , may be divided into one and twenty substances whetheranifnal
( : or vegetable we determine not ) every substance being at least as large as the ori ginal Cbrysipus — These may again be subdivided , each of them -into twenty-four ¦ and whatis very remarkable , everyone of these parts is heavier and rather larger . than the UrstCbrysipus . ¦ The onl y difference in this change is that of the colour ; for the first sort are yellow , the second White , and the third resemble the complexion and substance of many human faces .
' These subdivided parts are by some observed to lose , ' in a o-re ? t degree , their adherescent quality : notwithstanding which , Gaultents writes , that from the minutest observations upon his own experience , they all adhered with equal tenacity to his own fino-ers As to the age of the Cbrysipus ( says our " philosopher ) ' it differs extremely ; some being of equal duration with the life of man ; and ¦ some of moment ' existence
scarce a s . The best method of preserving them is , I believe , in bags or chests in loose numbers ; for tuey seldom live long when they are alone , some think , and very proper ] }' , they never can put enough of them together , if they are put into the pocket singly or in pairs , they will last but a very little while—and in some pockets not even a day
. The Cbrysipus is to be looked for in old houses , behind wainscotsand in scrutores ; in searching for them , particular regard is to be had ot the persons who inhabit , or have inhabited in the same houses , by observing which rule , you may often prevent throwing away your labour . They Jove to be rather with old than young