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been poysoned, yet without pain. The Cure for this, and 

 their Sting is Venice-treacle taken inwardly, and applying 

 outwardly Coiv-dung, fasting Spittle, Barley-meal, Oil and 

 Vinegar, &c. 



The Labourers, are a Specie of Hornets, and are so called, 

 from the pains and labour which they take in building their 

 Nests with a kind of yellow Clay, they make Rooms or Cells 

 wherein they breed their young, which is wrought so close, 

 and after such a manner, that it is hard to break it when dry, 

 to get the young ones out. They are near as large as a Hor- 

 net, and of the same shape and colour, they have long Legs, 

 and always breed their young ones in the Summer time. 

 They are more mild than the Hornets, and seldom or never 

 sting; I have often observed these Flies to scrape the Sand 

 by the River sides and moist places, where they make deep 

 Holes and are buried under Ground before they can come 

 at the yellow Clay. Some of them have Stings, yet they do 

 little harm, only they are very troublesome in the Houses by 

 fixing Clay to the Ceiling, if there is not proper Care taken 

 to prevent them. Their uses in Physick are unknown. 



The Fleas are very plenty in some parts of this Province, 

 especially in those places where the Indians dress their Deer 

 Skins, they have no Physical Virtues yet known, but are cer- 

 tainly most troublesome Guests. They are generated by Dust, 

 as also of putrefied Sweat, and are destroyed by Decoctions 

 made of Coloquintida. 



The Louse is not plenty in this Province. They are eaten 

 by Rusticks for the Jaundice, and Consumption, and to pro- 

 voke Urine. 



The TicJc is a filthy Creature, or kind of Louse that troubles 

 Oxen, Horses, Deer, Goats, Sheep, Dogs, and sometimes Men. 



These 



