176 October 1748. 



noxious infect.* I own, that when I firft 

 perceived them, I was more frightened 

 than I mould have been at the fight of a 

 viper. For I at once had a full view of 

 the whole damage, which my dear country 

 would have furTered, if only two or three 

 of thefe noxious infects had efcaped me. 

 The pofterity of many families, and even the 

 inhabitants of whole provinces, would have 

 had fufficient reafon to deteft me as the 

 caufe of fo great a calamity. I afterwards 

 fent fome of them, though well fecured, to 

 count Teffin, and to Dr. Linnaus, together 

 with an account of their deftructive quali- 

 ties. Dr. Linnceus has already inferted a 

 defcription of them in an Academical Dif- 

 fertation, which has been drawn up under 

 his presidency, and treats of the damages 

 made by infects.-)- He there calls this in- 

 fect the Brucbus of North- America. J It 



was 



* Though Mr. Kalm has fo carefully avoided peopling 

 Europe with this infeft, yet Dr. Linnaus aflures us in his 

 Syjiema Nature, that the fouthern countries of Europe are al- 

 ready infefted with it ; Scopoli mentions it among his Infefla 

 Carniolica p. 63. and Geoffroy among his Parijia7t Infe£ls> 

 Vol. 1. p. 267. t. 4.. f. 9. has given a fine figure of it. F. 



f Diff. de Noxa Infettorum, Amcen. Acad. Vol. 3. p. 



347- 



\ In his Syftema Naturae, he calls it Bruchus Piji, or the 



Peafe Beetle ; and fays that the Gracula Quifcula, or Purplt 



daw of Catejby y is the greateft deftroyer of them, and though 



this 



