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meddle with aiiv grain (exposed in the weather j but when 

 it is put up in elose places, such as barrels and the like, 

 yet this may be easily remedied by shaking a little Salt at 

 the bottom and top of those vessels the Corn is in. 



The Chinch Wall-louse, or Buggs; these are flat, red, and 

 in shape and bigness like the Sheep-louse, they have an offen- 

 sive smell w^hen they are killed, they haunt Beds, suck Men's 

 Blood very gi'eedily, especially about the Xeck and Face, 

 which in many appeareth for a Day or two, as if stung w4th 

 Settles, and are as numerous in this Province as in France or 

 Spain. Pliny saith, they are good against all Poysons and 

 biting of Serpents. Marcellus saith, that the Powder of them 

 cures all Fevers, their Scent, the Fits of the Mother, and that 

 they are successful to force away the Birth, and x\fter-birth. 



The Coch-roch, is a kind of Beetle, something larger than 

 a Crichet, and of a dark brown Colour; they frequent the 

 Houses, and are very mischievous among Books and Linnen, 

 by eating innumerable Holes in them, if there be not care 

 taken to sweep and keep those places clean where those things 

 are laid up. AYhen they are killed, they stink like Buggs; 

 their Uses in Physick are uncertain. 



The Tumhle-turds, are a Species of the Beetles, and so 

 called, from their constant rowling the Horse-dung (whereon 

 they feed) from one place to another, 'till it is no bigger than 

 a small Bullet. They are one of the strongest Insects, of the 

 same Size I have ever seen ; they frequently fly into Houses, 

 and I have seen one of them move a Brass Candlestick from 

 one place to another upon a Table, which seem'd very strange 

 to me at first ; for not long after my arrival, being one Xight 

 at a Planter's House, who had secretly conveyed two of these 



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