August 12, 1775

Posted by sydney on Aug 12th, 1775

Full moon.  High tides frequently discompose the weather in places so near the coast, even in the dryest, most settled season, for a day or two.

*Cimices lineares are now in high copulation on ponds & pools.  The females, who vastly exceed the males in bulk, dart & shoot along the surface of the water with the males on their backs.  When a female chuses to be disenegaged, she rears & jumps & plunges like an unruly colt; the lover, thus dismounted, soon finds a new mate.  The females as fast as their curiosities are satisfied retire to another part of the lake, perhaps to deposit their foetus in quiet: hence the sexes are found separate except where generation is going-on.  From the multitude of minute young of all gradations of size, thses insects seem without doubt to be viviparous.

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