Article #78 - Microscopial

Microscopial: A celebrated Naturalist tells us of animated insects seen with the microscope of which 27000000 would only be equal to a mite. Numerous insects are often found living in the cavities of a com[m]on grain of sand. Common mould found about old stumps to the microscope appears to be a beautiful forest of trees with the branches leaves flowers and fruit fully discernible. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies are covered with scales like a fish, a single grain of sand would cover 150 of these scales; and a single scale covers 500 pores yet through these narrow openings the sweat exudes like water through a sieve, how minute then must be its particles!

The mite makes 500 steps in a second. Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of animated beings swimming with as much freedom as whales in the sea. Each leaf in the forest bears upon its surface a colony of insects grazing like oxen in a meadow.