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numerous. He killed them every one for fear of danger, 

 and told rae of them when he came home. So that 

 this is now the fourth time they have been seen in this 

 place J once in the adder fkin, atid three times without 

 any cover, only moving in regular order, in one aggregate 

 body. Their life seemed to depend upon keeping close 

 together, because when separated, the dust on the road 

 stuck to them so that they could not move, and conse- 

 quently would soon have died ; it appears, by your ac- 

 count to be quite unnatural, to suppose them to be young 

 adders ; and supposing them maj^gots produced by sluuc 

 fly stinging the animal, as you gave an accour.t of a spe- 

 cies of fly stinging a caterpillai, aaJ the young of the 

 fly after being hatched fromc^^s withia its bowels, li- 

 ving upon it until arrived at k certain size, wi:ien tncy 

 cat themselves out, and entered into another stace c; ex- 

 istence. 



However, if this flioLld be the case, naturalists se?ai 

 to be unacquainted with the Sj['ecies by whom they are 

 produced. 



As 1 expect, if health permit, to remain for sonie time 

 near the place where they were found iasi summer, if 

 I have the good fortune to find any of them, I ll all pay 

 a little more attention to them ; and if pclsioic send 

 you a part alive for examination ; as I wifti much to have 

 this phenomneon farther cxplamed. I rem.i a Sir yours 

 sincerely. G. R. H. 



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