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here, (hewed me, here and there, great trafts in 

 the woods, where young trees ^vere now grow- 

 ing, inftead of the old ones, which, fome years 

 ago, had been deftroyed by the caterpillars* 

 Thefe caterpillars afterwards change into moths, 

 or jfttafefeffj which (hall be defcribed in the fe- 

 quel, in their proper places. 



IN other years the Grafs-worms do a great deal 

 of damage in feveral places, both in the mea- 

 dows and corn-fields. For the fields are at cer- 

 tain times over-run with great armies of thefe 

 worms, as with the other infedts ; yet it is very 

 happy that thefe many plagues do not corne all 

 together. For in thofe years, when the locufts 

 are numerous, the caterpillars and grafs-worms 

 are not very coniiderable, and it happens fo with 

 the latter kinds, fo that only one of the three 

 kinds comes at a time. Then there are feveral 

 years when they are very fcarce. The grafs- 

 worms have been obferved to fettle chiefly in a 

 fat foil ; but as foon as careful huuSandmen dif- 

 cover them, they draw narrow channels with al- 

 moft perpendicular fides quite round the field in 

 which the worms are fettled ; then, by creeping 

 further, they all fall into the ditch, and cannot 

 get out again. I was affured, by many perfons, 

 that thefe three forts of infecls followed each 

 other pretty clofely ; and that the locufts came 

 in the firft year, the caterpillars in the fecond, 

 and the grafs-worms in the laft : I have likewife 

 found, by my own experience, that this is partly 

 true. 



MOTHS, or tfinece, which eat the clothes, are 

 likewife abundant here. I have feen cloth, 

 worfted gloves, *nd other woollen Huffs, which 



had 



