many other purposes. The cochineal yield

the finest scarlet dye, and the silk-worm con verts. the leaves of the mulberry-tree into silk. The termes, the fieshfly, and many other insects, are employed, in consuming substances that are falling to decay, such as rotten timber, putrid carcasses, &c. and though their task is less pleasing than that of the bee or the silkworm, it is not less important; for the effiuvia from such substances in warm climates, would produce a pestilence, and render the country uninhabitable. But there is mother and an awful office to which these tiny and apparently feeble creatures are appointed, which is that

destruction. A swarm of locusts, extending over a whole country, and consuming every green thing, is as tremendous an instrument iii the hands of Omnipotence, as an earthquake or a volcano. We may remember, that innumerable swarms of flies were sent to the .gyp tians, as one of the signals of divine displea sure, and seem to have been as distressing as most of the other plagues. Dr. Darwin asserts, that the apliis, which is a small insect, commonly called the plantIouse, is so prolific and

so voracious, that, were its numbers not cliccki ed by various enemies, which restrain its In

crease within due bounds, it would starve the whole race of mankind. So you may perceive,