THE NAT AN!> TIPULA. 



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inconvenient than those who are newly ar- 

 rived from Europe; they sleep in their 

 cottages covered all over with thousands of 

 the gnat kind upoii their bodies, and yet do 

 not seem to have their slumbers disturbed 

 by their cruel devourers. If a candle hap- 

 NO. C9 & 70. 



pens to be lighted in one of those places, a 

 cloud of insects at once light upon the tiame, 

 and extinguish it: they art therefore obliged 

 to keep their candles in glass lanterns; a 

 miserable expedient to prevent an unceasing 

 calamity ! 



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