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travels towards New South Wales, at the king's 

 expense ; having been convicted, at the York as- 

 sizes, of an overweening inclination for his neigh- 

 bour's mutton, to which he had helped himself most 

 abundantly. 



NOTES ON THE HABITS OF THE CHEGOE 

 OF GUIANA, BETTER KNOWN BY THE 

 NAME OF ' JIGGER; AND INSTANCES OF 

 ITS EFFECTS ON MAN AND DOGS. 



"Priorerelicta 



Sede, novis domibus habitant, vivuntque receptse." Ovid. Met. 

 Leaving their former haunts, beneath the skin 

 They form new settlements, and thrive within. 



THIS apparently insignificant insect far outdoes the 

 bug in the exercise of its noxious qualities. The 

 bug attacks you in an open manner, makes a hearty 

 meal, and then retires to enjoy it : but the chegoe 

 commences its operations upon you so gently, that 

 they are scarcely felt ; and it terminates them in a 

 way that calls for your most serious attention. In 

 a word, it approaches you with such insinuating 

 address, that you absolutely feel a kind of gratifi- 

 cation at the very time that it is adopting measures 

 which will infallibly end in your certain torment. 



Soon after the chegoe has entered your skin, you 

 experience a pleasant itching kind of sensation, by 

 which you begin to suspect that all is not right; 



