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Article XIX. 



Ohjervations on the Suhje5fs propojed by the Bath 

 r.^^r^tiilyj in their Circular Letter af Juiy ;}oth, 

 1791, for Enquiry of the fever al Perfins ts 

 whom 4hifmd Leu^- iiMi addreffed. 



. JS^uB fr(m Circular Letter, 



^ The S(>t'iety has httti mform6<l, thaft great -^aftiagej 

 .; f^.hav© been done to many Fix Plantations (particu^ 



" larly among the Scotch firs) by fquirrels preying 



*' upon the bark." 



r " GenepraHy (fene in the fpri Qg, When the winter iboards 

 " of thefe little animals are exhatifted," 



" The injury has been generally done, by gnawing the 

 *' bark quite round the leader of the tree, a few feet 

 " below the top, the fquirrels chewing it for the fake 

 *' of the moffture, and dropjying the woody part like 

 *' faw-duft on the ground.*' 



'** TIte tr<fe tRtis barked decays in that part, lofes its top 

 " by the firft rough wind, and of Gourfe gradually 



" perifhes. The fociety wifh to know, haw far 



*' fuch complaint is general." 



Observations. 



MANY hundred Scotch firs were damaged by 

 the fquirrels, in Lord Bath's plantations, in 

 the Ipring of 1788. Some few have been damaged 



ftnce. 



