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§. Bugs, mufketoes, &c. &c. have generally died. 
6. The grafshoppers I fufpect are gone, not having yet 
feen any. 
7, Some {nakes yet live, but they are not fo numerous 
as formerly. 
A multiplicity of bufinefs prevented me from extending 
thefe obfervations; but if I had had leafure, I fhould 
doubtlefs have difcovered many more animals and infects 
that fuffered from the fame caufe. 
8. I muft add’ fomething remarkable refpeGting fith, 
though I know not whether to refer it tothe cold or fome 
other caufe.. ‘ 
From 14th to 24th of May after continued eafterly 
winds, fith were driven on the coaft in fuch abundance that 
in Rehoboth only two or three hundred bufhels were 
daily colleéted and eaten by the people. Seme feemed 
at firft to be alives but. far the greater part were dead, 
and many had one eye picked out by the birds while 
floating on the water. The found, or air bladder, of them 
all was remarkably diftended, fo that they could not fink 
in the water; this feemed to be the caufe of their death. 
Thefe fifh were generally feacrocus, a few cats and fome 
fea trout. 
The vegetable feems:to have fuffered more thanthe ani- 
mal kingdom. 
_ Rofemary; of which there were many large and 
flourifhing hedges, is totally exting. 
The Pink is deftroyed, except afew fmall roots, cos 
vered with leaves, in-narrow places. 
Grape Vines.both native and foreign are killed, except 
where they were fheltered from the winds. 
Moft of the ever greens, the {mall Laure/, the Holly, the 
Funiper, Bear bufbes and fome fmall pines have fuffered 
inthe general calamity; and what is {till more remarka- 
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