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fatten to one's clothes, and thus be brought over 

 into other houfes, 



I cannot fay whether thefe remedies are good 

 or no, as I have not tried them ; but by repeated 

 trials [have been convinced that fulphur, if it be 

 prope/ly employed, entirely deflroys bugs and 

 their eggs in beds and walls, though they were 

 ten times more numerous than the ants in an ant 

 hill.* 



THE Mill-beetles, or Cock-roaches, are likewife 

 a plague of North America, and are fettled in ma- 

 ny of its provinces. The learned Dr. Cold'n was of 

 opinion that thefe infedls were properly natives of 

 the Weft Indies, and that thofe that were found in 

 North America were brought over from thofe 

 iflands. To confirm his opinion, hefaid, that it 

 wns yet daily feen how the ihips coming with 

 goods from the Weft-Indies to North- America 

 brought mill-beetles with them in great num- 

 bers. But from the obiervations which I have 

 made in this country, I have reafon to believe that 

 thefe infects have been on the continent of North 

 America time immemorial. Yet notwithftand- 

 ing this I do not deny their being brought over 

 from the Weft Indies. They are in almofl every 

 houfe in the city of New York*, and thofe un- 

 doubtedly came over in (hips. But how can that 

 be faid of thofe mill-beetles, which are found in 

 the mid ft of the woods and deferts ? 



THE Engtijh likewife call the Mill-beetles, Cock- 

 roaches, and the Dutch give them the name of 



* A #111 more infallible remedy, is to wafh all the furniture, 

 .'.'j with that vermin, with a foliuion cf anenic. F. 



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