1 6 December 174$. 



victuals. Sometimes they bite people's 

 nofes or feet, whilft they are afleep. Ail 

 old Swede, called Sven Laock, a grandfon 

 of the Rev. Mr. Laockenius, one of the 

 firft Swedi/h clergymen that came to Pen- 

 fyfoania, told me, that he had in his 

 younger years been once very much fright- 

 ened on account of a cock-roach, which 

 crept into his ear whilft he was afleep. 

 He waked fuddenly, jumped out of bed,- 

 and felt that the infeft, probably out of 

 fear, was endeavouring with all its ftrength 

 to get deeper. Thefe attempts of the 

 cock-roach were fo painful to him, that he 

 imagined his head was burfling, and he 

 was almoft fenfelefs ; however he haftened 

 to the well, and bringing up a bucket full 

 of water, threw fome into his ear. As 

 foon as the cock-roach found itfelf in dan- 

 ger of being drowned, it endeavoured to 

 fave itfelf, and pufhed backwards out of 

 the ear, with its hind feet, and thus hap- 

 pily delivered the poor man from his 

 fears. 



THE Wood-lice are difagrefcable infe&s, 

 which in a manner are worfe than the pre- 

 ceding ; but as I have already defcribed 

 them in a peculiar memoir, which id 

 printed among the memoirs of the Royal 



Academy 



