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inhabitants were forced to leave off fowing 

 of peafe. The people complained of this 

 in feveral places. The country people 

 about Albany have yet the pleafure to fee 

 their fields of peafe not infeded by thefe 

 beetles, but are always afraid of their ap- 

 proach ; as it has been obferved they come 

 every year nearer to that province. 



I KNOW not whether this infedt would 

 live in Europe, and I fhould think our 

 Swedijh winters muft kill the worm, even 

 if it be ever fo deeply inclofed in the pea; 

 notwithflanding it is often as cold in New 

 Tork (where this infedt is fo abundant) as in 

 our country, yet it continues to multiply here 

 every year, and proceeds always farther to 

 the north. 1 was very near bringing fome 

 of thefe vermin into Europe, without know- 

 ing of it. At my departure from America, I 

 took fome fweet peas with me in a paper, 

 and they were at that time quite freih and 

 green. But on opening the paper after my 

 arrival at Stockholm, on Auguft the ift. 

 1751 s I found all the peas hollow, and 

 the head of an infed: peeping out of each. 

 Some of thefe infers even crept out, in or- 

 der to try the weather of this new climate -, 

 but I made hafte, to fhut the paper again, 

 }n order to prevent the fpreading of this 



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