156 The Natural History 



with in Europe. The second are much of the same bigness 

 as those with us. Both these sorts seem to be more lazy and 

 dull Insects than those in Europe, for they are seldom heard 

 singing, but commonly are groveling in the Dust. They are 

 likewise bad sighted, for they will scarce stir 'till you almost 

 tread upon them. Of all Creatures that are known to live, 

 the Grass-hoppers alone have no Mouth, only a sharp Pipe 

 in their Breasts, wherewith they suck in the Dew, on which 

 they live. Their Breasts are full of small sharp Pipes, with 

 which they make that ringing Noise we hear, and their Bel- 

 lies, for the most part, are found empty. They engender 

 with their Bellies upward, and have a roughness on their 

 Backs, which is sharp, and it is with this that they make Holes 

 in the Earth, where they lay their Eggs, and breed. When 

 these Eggs are hatched (which is by the heat of the Sun) there 

 appear first little Worms or Maggots, which in process of 

 time become Grass-hoppers. The Males are only said to sing, 

 and the Females to be always silent. They are never to be 

 met in these parts in the ^Y^nter Season. The Powder of them 

 dried and given with Pepper, helps the Cholick, difficulty of 

 Urine, and the Ashes with Rhenish Wine the Gravel. 



Sows, or Hog-lice, breed in most places, especially under 

 Stones and rotten Wood, whereof there are two sorts in this 

 Province, but not so plenty as with us, by reason that the 

 Wood-peckers, and several other Birds and Creatures con- 

 tinually devour them. When they are touched, they gather 

 themselves up as round as a Pea. The whole Insect is thin, 

 and of volatile Parts, digesting, cleansing, opening, nud n 

 great disolver of all tartarous Matter, therefore good in ali 

 Obstructions, Jaundice, Cholick, King's Evil, old sordid and 

 rebellious Ulcers, Con\ailsions, Stone and Gravel, Rickets in 



Children, 



