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Neither the fcvereft frofta in our climate, nor 

 even keeping them in water, will kill them, I 

 have kept feme in water near a week ; they ap- 

 peared motionlefs i but on expofing them to the 

 llin and air a few hour§, they recovered, and were 

 is lively as ever* flence, it is evident, they can 

 live without air,^ On examining them with ami- 

 crofcope, I could never difcover any organs for re- 

 fpiration, or perceive any pujfation. 



Hogs will root up the land for them, and at firft 

 eat them greedily j but feldpm ncieddle with them 

 a iecond tin>e. To rooks and crows they fetm to 

 be a high regale. When nu/nerpus, they are npt 

 deftroyed without great difficulty -, the bed method 

 is, to plough up the land in thin furrows, and em- 

 ploy children to pick them up in bafkets : and then 

 llrew fait and quick-lime, and harrow in. 



About thirty years fince, I remember many far- 

 mers' crops in Norfolk were almoft ruined by them 

 in their grub-fl:^e> and in the next feafon, when 

 they took wing, the trees and hedge-rows in many 

 parifhes were ftript bare of their leaves as in winter. 

 At firft the people ufed to brulh them down with 

 poles, and then fweep them lip and burn them. 

 One farmer made oath, that he gathered eighty 



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