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Canada the French did not* remember feeing any 

 in thehoufes. Jn Penfyhania, \ m tald, they 

 run in immenfe numbers about the (heaves of 

 corn, during the harveft. At other times they 

 live commonly in the houfes in {he Engliftj fettle- 

 ments, and lie in the crevices, efpecially in the 

 cracks ef thofe beams which fuppprt the ceiling, 

 and are neajeft to the chimney, 



THEY do a deal qf damage by eating the foft 

 parts of the bread. If they have once made 3 

 hole into a loaf, they will in a little time eat all 

 the fbft part in it, fo that on cutting the loaf, 

 nothing but the cruft is left. I am to!4 they 

 Jikewife eat other victuals. Sometimes they bitQ 

 people's nofes or feet, whilft they a.re afleep. An, 

 old Swede, called Sven Laock, a grandfon of the 

 Rev, Mr. Laockenius, one of the firft Siyedijhi 

 clergymen that came to Penfyhania, told me, 

 that he had in his younger years been once very 

 much frightened on account of a cock-roach, 

 which crept into his ear whilft he was afleep. He 

 waked fuddenly, jumped out qf bed, and felfc 

 that the infed:, probably out of fear, was en- 

 deavouring with all its ftrength to get deepe'r. 

 Thefe attempts of the coach-roach were fo pain- 

 ful to him, that he imagined his head was bur(W 

 ing, and he was almoft fenfelefs ; however he 

 haftensd to the well, and bringing up a bucke^: 

 full of water, threw fqme into his ear. AS foont 

 as the cock-roach found itfelf in danger of 

 being drowned, it endeavoured to fave itfelf, and 

 pufhed backwards out of the ear, with its hin4 

 feet, and thus happily delivered the poor man 

 his fears. 



