12 December 1748. 



they meet with. But as I have never feen 

 any bugs upon bats, I cannot fay any thing 

 upon that fubjeft. Perhaps a loufe or a 

 tick (Acarus) has been taken for a bug. 

 Or, if a real bug has been found upon a 

 bat's wing, it is very eafy to conceive that 

 it fixed on the bat, whilft the latter was 

 fitting in the chinks of a houfe flocked 

 with European bugs. 



As the people here could not bear the 

 inconvenience of thefe vermin, any more 

 than we can in Sweden, they endeavoured 

 to expel them by different means. I have 

 already remarked in the preceding volume, 

 that the beds to that purpofe were made of 

 Saffafras wood, but that they were only 

 temporary remedies. t Some perfons affured 

 me that they had found from their own 

 experience, and by repeated trials, that no 

 remedy was more effectual towards the ex- 

 pulfion of bugs, than the injedting of 

 boiling water into all the cracks where 

 they are fettled, and wafhing all the wood 

 of the beds with it ; this being twice or 

 thrice repeated, the bugs are wholly de- 

 ftroyed. But if there are bugs in neigh- 

 bouring houfes, they will faften to ones 

 clothes, and thus be brought over into 

 other houfes. 



I cannot fay whether thefe remedies are 



good 



