sins 75° | 
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THE BEE, 
OR 
LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
POR 
WeEPNEsDAY, May 23. 1792. 
THE LEMING, or tartann MARMOT. 
y our northern climates we can scarcely form a8 
idea of the terrible nature of those plagues of ver- 
min which distrefsed Egypt ; but in warm climates, 
the ravages committed by insects and vermin are 
well known, and terrible. Whole countries have 
been often laid desolate by locusts ! nota green thing 
left for the subsistence of man or other animals ; and 
extensive regions are totally uninhabitable by reason 
.of the swarms of flies which there abound. With 
aus, rats and mice sometimes become a little trouble- 
some ; but, compared with the vermin of warm cli- 
mates, these would be accounted nothing. The /e- 
ming is the only animal in cold regions, which is ever 
VOL. ix. L ¢ 
