Note 4 — Chapter III · THE TEREBINTH-LOUSE: THE GALLS
Bernard Miall translation
To estimate the whole population, I pack it into a glass tube eighteen millimetres4 in diameter. The column thus formed occupies a height of 56 millimetres.5 The volume, therefore, amounts to 16,532 cubic millimetres.6 Therefore, allowing one Louse, roughly, to each cubic millimetre, the population of the gall is about sixteen thousand. As I cannot count, I gauge. Even so did Herschel7 gauge the Milky Way. For numerical infinity, the Louse vies with the star. In four months the black atom, the first pioneer of the gall, has left all these descendants; and the end is not yet.