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vania to the north. For the country of New 

 Tork 9 where it is common at prefent, has not been 

 plagued with it above twelve or fifteen years ago; 

 and before that time the people fowed peafc 

 every year, without any inconvenience, and had 

 excellent crops. But by degrees thefe little ene- 

 mies came in fuch numbers, that the inhabitants 

 were forced to leave off fowing of peafe. The 

 people complained of this in feveral places. The 

 country people about Albany have yet the plea- 

 fure to fee their fields of peafe not infefted by 

 thefe beetles, but are always afraid of their ap- 

 proach ; as it has been obferved they come every 

 year nearer to that province. 



I KNOW not whether this infeft would live in 

 Europe, and I mould think our Swedi/h winters 

 muft kill the worm, even if it be ever fo deeply 

 inclofed in the pea ; notwithftanding it is often 

 as cold in New Tork (where this infecl: is fo abun- 

 dant) as in our country, yet it continues to mul- 

 tiply here every year, and proceeds always farther 

 to the north. I was very near bringing fome 

 of thefe vermin into Europe, without knowing 

 of it. At my departure from America, I took 

 fome fweet peas with me in a paper, and they were 

 at that time quite frefh and green. But on open- 

 ing the paper, after my arrival at Stockholm, on 

 Augiift the i ft, 1751 ; I found all the peas hollow, 

 and the head of an infect peeping out of each. 

 Some of thefe infefts even crept out, in order to 

 try the weather of this new climate ; but I made 

 hafte to fhut the paper again, in order to prevent 

 the fpreading of this noxious infecl:.* I own, that 



when 



* THOVGH Mr. Kafa has fo carefully avoided peopling E*- 



