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upon every plant ^ This makes it unnecef- 

 fary for mc to enlarge at prefent upon the 

 almoft incredible mifchief infedls do us. I 

 will only in a very few v/ords mention, that 

 we fhall never be able to guard ourfelves 

 againft them, but by their means. For as 

 we make ufe of dogs^ and other bealls, in hunt- 

 ing down ftags^ boars^ hares and other ani- 

 mals, which do us much damage in our fields 

 and meadows ; or as hawks may be bred up 

 to as fo afTift us in taking herons^ larks and 

 other birds, fo alio v/e might make ufe of 

 the fiercer kinds of infedts, in order to get 

 the better of the reft of thefe troublefome 

 animals. 



We Ihall never be able to drive hugs out 

 of our houfes, before we introduce other in- 

 fers that v/ill devour them, v. g-. the wild 

 higs^ See. 



We have no eafier method of deftroying 

 k^iats and flies which caufe us fo much difturb- 



'^ The two laf^ mentioned perfons hinted at are, i imagine 

 J. G. Foikahl, and M. Backner, the (irft of whom has written 

 atreatife fhewing the plants which different infcds live upon, 

 the iail: a trcatife on the mifchiefs' done by infeds. Both 

 thcfe are pubiilll^d in Arnsnn. Acad. v. 3. 



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