Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
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Transcription
"The creature [illegible] from ship
and the bad spirit a devil, that they may distinguish both a good and a bad, much for the devil. But to creatures in this, doing nothing to same thing. This occurred to me yester-day as I sat in the woods admiring that canty of the fine butterfly.
We are not chiefly interested in birds and insects, for example, with an ornament to the earth and cheer to man, but we define the laws of the forces of a condition that they can some proof than by its chirping, and things according study of moths out of the state of enemies as it is insect ingurians to reputation" and [illegible].
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