2*8 MINUTES MAY 



1 08. maggot, whole unlimited mifchievoufnefs 

 CKEESE. feems to be confined to this part of the king- 



dom. 



The fly, which is the caufe of this fcrious 

 mifchief, is of a fpecies ibmewhat final 1, flen- 

 der, black, and fhining ; very much refembling 

 the fmall winged ant. Wherever it finds a 

 crack or other defect in the rind, be it ever fo 

 minute, it turns its tail towards the aperture ; 

 and, by the infertion of a flender flieath not 

 unlike the fting of a bee, there depofits its 

 eggs. If the fiilure be fufficiently large and 

 deep, it enters its hind-parts alfo : if flill 

 deeper, it crawls backward into the cheefe ; 

 leaving only its head in fight, and thus injects 

 its eggs to a confiderable depth. 



As the maggots rife into life, they travel flill 

 farther into the fubflance of the cheefe; and, 

 if it happens to be porous, foon pervade every 

 part of it; in a few weeks working its total de- 

 ilruction : for not only the parts they immedi- 

 ately inhabit, but the whole cheefe becomes 

 bitter, and entirely inedible ; except by fome 

 of the good people of the country, to whom 

 cuflom has rendered even the maggots grateful. 



Lafl year (1781) being remarkable for flics 

 of every fpecies, there were, in this neighbour- 

 hood, 



