LETTER XV1L

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Mv DEAREST CoNsTANCE,

'IHE task of writing to you is so agreeable, That a am always 1)leaseci to find a motive for taking up my pen br that p1rIJOse. The plea of giving on a sketch of the science ot Entomology, as furnished me with an excuse for ftequcutly tndulging myself in this. innocent gratification, in which, I am per suacleci, the pleasure is mutual. tinder this impression, I the more readily proceed with the remaining genera of the seventh order;r consisting, chiefly, of insects that are neither engaging in figure nor disposition.

The Scorpion is the dreaded inhabitant of warm climates, particularly Africa, where it attains to a larger size, and the poison of its sting is more malignant, than elsewhere; occa sioning always painful symptoms, and some times death. Its form has some resemblance to that of a lobster; it being furnished with

claws,