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transport ships is of course impossible, when all necessary accommoda- 

 tions had been more than shortened. 



The division was ordered, August 19th, from Staten Island to Long 

 Island, and arrived August 22nd at Flatbush. The official records state 

 that only the tents and the baggage were transported on very small and 

 odd-looking wagons, each with only two small horses. Here again the 

 supposition that camp straw had been transported is entirely improbable, 

 the more as it is stated that ' ; the troops found Long Island well provided 

 with everything, even to a certain degree of comfort and luxury." 



These troops left Hesse in February, and Spithead in May, also long 

 before straw could have been made, and could not have imported the fly. 

 These are the very troops Dr. Asa Fitch speaks of with confidence as im- 

 porters of the Hessian fly. 



The second division of the Hessian troops left Cassel in May, 1776,. 

 Bremenhaven June 3rd, arrived at Spithead June 20th, sailed together 

 with the Waldek troops July 20th, and arrived October 21st at New 

 Rochelle, Long Island. The date of their arrival alone proves that the 

 importation of the fly by them was impossible. 



All other German troops dispatched in 1776 were landed in Quebec. 

 The Braunschweig troops left February 22nd, arrived at Stade March 5th 

 and at Portsmouth March 20th. The Hanau troops left March 15th, and 

 were embarked March 26th at Nimwegen. Both troops together sailed 

 from Portsmouth April 7th, and arrived June 1st at -Quebec. Of course 

 its importation by these troops is out of the question. 



During the year 1777 the following German troops were sent to 

 America : From Hessen Cassel, which left March 2nd, were shipped on 

 the Fulda May 18th, embarked May 25th at Bremenhaven, and arrived 

 September 27th at Sandy Hook. From Hessen Hanau, which started 

 March 7th and 31st for Dordrecht; from Braunschweig, which arrived 

 March 12th at Stade ; from Anspach Bayreuth, which left February 29th, 

 and were embarked March 30th at Dordrecht. All left Portsmouth 

 together April 7th, and landed June 3rd at Staten Island, and were 

 ordered June nth to Amboy, N. J. Comparing the dates of their 

 arrival, an importation of the fly by those troops is impossible. 



The data for the following years are without importance, as the fly 

 appeared in fall of 1778 in New York. But it may be stated that during 

 1778 the troops from Hessen and Bayreuth arrived, Sept. 25th, also too 

 late to import the fly. 



