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Small black flies are so numerous, that it 

 is usual to have some kind of poison to de- 

 stroy them. For which purpose a sub- 

 stance, called fly-stone, mixed with sugar 

 and water, is spread on a plate. In my 

 house it was necessary to sweep the room 

 repeatedly in the course of the day, during 

 which time several handfuls were poisoned. 



There is a tick or dog-louse in the woods, 

 in great numbers : and they will fix them- 

 selves in such a manner upon the human 

 body, as, if not quickly removed, to make 

 the place very disagreeable for a month 

 after. There are hundreds of those sorts 

 of reptiles, flies, and bugs, (all denominated 

 bugs by the Americans,) too tedious to 

 mention, or more than I can enumerate. 



