322 December 1748. 



KackerlacL The Swedes in this country call 

 them Brodoetare, or Bread-eaters, on account of 

 the damage they do to the bread, which I am go- 

 ing to defcribe. Dr. Linnaus calls them Btatta 

 Orientalis. Many of the Swedes call them like- 

 wife K acker lack. They are not only obferved in 

 the houfes, but in the fummer they appear often 

 in the woods, and run about the trees, which are 

 cut down. On bringing in all forts of old rotten 

 blocks of wood for fewel, mltebruary, I difcover- 

 ed feveral cock-roaches fettled in them; they were 

 at firft quite torpid, or as it were dead j but after 

 lying in the room for a while, they recovered, be- 

 came very lively, and began to run about. I af- 

 terwards found very often, that when old rotten 

 wood was brought home in winter, and cut in 

 pieces for fewel, the cock-roaches were got into 

 it in numbers, and lay in it in a torpid ftate. 

 In the fame winter, a fellow cut down a great 

 dry tree, and was about to fplit it. I then ob- 

 ferved in a crack, fome fathoms above the ground, 

 feveral cock-roaches together with the common 

 ants. They were, it feems, crept up a great 

 way, in order to find a fecure place of abode a- 

 gainft winter. On travelling, in the middle of 

 Qflober 1749, through the uninhabited country 

 between the Englijh and French colonies, and 

 making a fire at night near a thick half rotten 

 tree, on the fhore of lake Cbamplain, numbers 

 of cock- roaches came out of the wood, being 

 wakened by the fmoke and the fire, which had 

 driven them out of their holes. The Frenchmen, 

 who were then in my company, did not know 

 them, and could not give them any name. In 



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