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The 8ilk-worms: In several of our Joiirnies in this Prov- 

 ince, we found great numbers of them, with quantities of 

 Silk as large as our ordinary Vlall-nui. And no doubt these 

 profitable Insects might be brought to great Perfection in 

 Carolina, as in any part of Europe, if the same Care were 

 taken there as is in France, Spain and many other Places, 

 since this Country doth naturally produce them. In process 

 of time, they leave off Spinning, and receive Wings like But- 

 terflies, and after three or four Days Copulation, the Male 

 presently dies, and the Female having lay'd many Eggs, dies 

 also. The whole Worms dried, powder'd and laid to the 

 Crown of the Head are good in Megrims, Virtigoes and Con- 

 vulsions, and the Ashes of the Silk cleanseth Wounds, &c. 



The Butte7^-flies are produced from small Eggs as the Silk- 

 worms are, and are very plenty all over this Province, and of 

 several sorts : some large, and others small, and most beauti- 

 fully Mottled with variety of fine Colours. They generate in 

 May, June and July, and lay vast quantities of Eggs in the 

 Season, from whence they are produced. There are some of 

 them larger in this Province than any I have met with in 

 Europe, for you shall frequently see them chace the Hum- 

 ming-hirds away from the Elowers on which they feed. It is 

 a long lived Insect, after the Head is off; for I pulled off 

 the Head from one of them in the middle of Summer, that 

 lived about thirty five Days, and could flie all that time. This 

 any one that pleases may try and prove the Truth of it. The 

 Powder of these Insects taken inwardly, provokes Urine, and 

 have much the same Virtues with the Silk-worm, 



The Grass-lioppers are very plenty, whereof there are two 

 Sorts ; the first are of a much larger size than any I have met 



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