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they meet with. But ss I have never Teen 

 any bugs upon hats, I cannot fay any thing 

 upon that fobjed. Perhaps a loufe or a 

 tick (Acarus) has been taken for a bug. 

 Or, if a real bug has been found upon a 

 bat's wing, it is very eafv to conceive that 

 it fixed on the bat, whilit the latter was 

 fitting; in the chinks of a hcuie itocked 

 with European bugs. 



As the people here could not be;.r the 

 inconvenience of thefe vermin, any more 

 than we can in Sweden, they endeavoured 

 to expel them by different means. I have 

 already remarked in the preceding volume, 

 that the beds to that purpoie were made of 

 Saffdfrm wood, but that they were only 

 temporary remedies. Some perfons affured 

 me that they had found from their own 

 experience, and by repeated trials, that no 

 remedy was more effectual towards the ex- 

 pullion of bugs, than the injecting of 

 boiling water into all the cracks where 

 they are fettled, and warning all the wood 

 of the beds with it ; this being twice or 

 thrice repeated, the bugs are wholly de- 

 stroyed. But if there are bugs in neigh- 

 bouring houfes, they will fallen to ones 

 clothes, and thus be brought over into 

 other houfes. 



I cannot fay whether thefe remedies are 



good 



