New Jer/ey 9 Raccoon. 319 



are fometimes to be met with in the houfes in 

 * Sweden, I have not perceived in any part of Pen-* 

 fy/vania or New Jerfey ; and other people whom 

 I have afked, could not fay that they had ever 

 feen any. In fummer there are a kind of black 

 Crickets * in the fields, which make exadtly the 

 fame chirping noife as our houfe crickets. Bat 

 they keep only to the fields, and were filent as 

 foon as winter or the cold weather came on. 

 They fay it fometimes happens that thefe field 

 crickets take refuge in houfes, and chirp conti- 

 nually there, whilft it is warm weather, or whilft 

 the rooms are warm ; but as foon as it grows 

 cold they are filent. In fome parts of the pro- 

 vince of New York* and in Canada , every farm- 

 houfe, and moft of the houfes in the towns, 

 fwarm with fo many, that no farm-houfe in our 

 country can be better flocked with them. They 

 continue their mufic there throughout the whole 

 winter. 



BUGS fCimex leftularius) are very plentiful 

 here. I have been fufficiently tormented by them, 

 in many places in Canada : But I do not remem- 

 ber having feen any with the Indians, during my 

 flay at Fort Frederick. The commander there, 

 Mr. de Loufignan, told me, that none of the //- 

 linois and other Indians of the weftern parts of 

 North America knew any thing of thefe vermin. 

 And he added, that he could with certainty fay 

 this from his own experience, having been among 

 them for a great while. Yet I cannot determine 



* Perhaps it is the Gryllus campeftris, or common black field 

 cricket of Europe, of which Rof/t/ t in his work on infe&s, vol. 2, 

 Cryll. f. 13. has given a fine drawing. F. 



whether 



