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beautiful transparent globe, perhaps the 

 most perfect in nature. 



I frequently found the worm which had 

 deposited them along with them, sometimes 

 alive, but oftener dead : and I >aiid them 

 generally so securely lodged under the outer 

 bark, sometimes in the inner and inmost, 

 and even into the wood, that I saw no pos- 

 sible means of destroying them but by 

 taking off the outer bark, and even the in- 

 most, and part of the wood, where they had 

 penetrated so far. The only obstacle that 

 now presented itself was, the danger of kill- 

 ing the tree, and thus rendering the cure 

 worse than the disease. This, however, I 

 considered as nothing but a common preju- 

 dice, which required nothing but courage 

 to oppose, because I had every encourage- 

 ment nature could hold out to me. I had 



