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out having a whole army of them on your 

 cloaths, or to fit down, though the place 

 be ever fo pleafant. The inconvenience 

 and trouble they caufe, both to man and 

 beaft, I have defcribed in the Memoirs of 

 the Royal Swedijh Academy of Sciences. The 

 weather is fo inconftant here, that when a 

 day is mod exceffively hot, the next is often 

 fenlibly cold. This fudden change often 

 happens in one day ; and few people can 

 fuffer thefe changes, without impairing 

 their health. The heat in fummer is excef- 

 fi ve, and the cold in winter often very piercing. 

 However, one can always fecure one's felf 

 againft the cold ; but when the great heat 

 is of any duration, there is hardly any reme- 

 dy againft it. It tires one fo, that one does 

 not know which way to turn. It has fre- 

 quently happened, that people who walked 

 into the fields, dropped down dead, on ac- 

 count of the violence of the heat. Several 

 diftempcrs prevail here -, and they increafe 

 every year. Nobody is left unattacked by 

 the intermitting fever ; and many people 

 are forced to fuffer it every year, together 

 with other difeafes. Peafe cannot be fown, 

 on account of the infects which confume 

 them*. There are worms in the grains of 

 rye, and numbers of them are in the cherry- 

 trees. 



• BfHchus Piji. 



