6 I) ee ember 1748, 



may fee their grandchildren, till the third 

 and fourth generation, has been literally ful- 

 filled in regard to fome of theie perfons *. 



December the 9th. In every country, we 

 commonly meet with a number of infe&s ; 

 of which many, though they be ever fo 

 finall and contemptible, can do confiderable 

 damage to the inhabitants. Of theie dan- 

 gerous infects, there are likewife fome in 

 North America : fome are peculiar to that 

 country, others are common to Europe like- 

 wife. 



I have already, in the preceding volume, 

 mentioned the Mofquitoes, as a kind of difa- 

 greeable gnats ; and another noxious infect, 

 the Bruchus Pifi, which deftroys whole fields 

 with peafe. 1 (hall here add fome more. 



There are a kind of Locujls, which about 

 every feventeenth year come hither in in- 

 credible numbers, They come out of the 

 ground in the middle of May, and make, 

 for fix weeks together, fuch a noife in the 

 trees and woods, that two perfons who 

 meet in fuch places, cannot understand each 

 other, unlefs they fpeak louder than the 

 locuiis can chirp. During that time, they 

 make, with the fting in their tail, holes in- 

 to the foft bark of the little branches on the 

 trees, by which means thefe branches are 



ruined. 



t Mr. Kalm fpeaks here of the Snxedijb Liturgy. 



