j6 MINUTES AUG. 



12. touched ; andthofe which are affedted are only 



TJRNEP partially eaten, in irregular plots; which per- 



haps are entirely eaten off, while the reft of the 

 piece remains uninjured. 



It is flill more remarkable that the fea-coaft 

 has fuffered molt; themifchief decreafing with 

 the increafed diltance from the fca. Perhaps 

 the parent-infects were brought by the north- 

 eaft winds which have prevailed this year. 



That infedb attempt, at leaft, to crofs the 

 ocean, feems evident from the obfervation of 

 Mr. Arthur Bayfield, of Antingham, who fays, 

 that being on the fea-lhore fome years ago, he 

 faw myriads of flies, rcfcmbling the cantharides, 

 left dead upon the beach by the tide. Thefe, 

 probably, being becalmed, or meeting with 

 contrary winds in their paflage, became fpent, 

 dropt into the fea, and were drowned. 



Mr. Thomas Shepherd, of Northreps, fays, 

 that this year a piece of early-fown turneps 

 was feen to be almofl covered with a fpccies of 

 fly refembling the grey horfc-fly ; with this 

 difference, that the head is black and the body 

 yellow. From former obfervations of this kind 

 he foretold the deftruction of that piece of 

 turneps by the " cankers :" and his appre- 

 henfions were too well grounded ; for it was 1 



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