ly^ OSlober 1748. 



noxious infed:.* I own, that when I firf! 

 perceived them, I was more frightened 

 than I fhould have been at the fight of a 

 viper. For I at once had a full view of 

 the whole damage, which my dear country 

 would have fuifered, if only two or three 

 of thefe noxious infers had efcaped me. 

 The pofterity of many families, and even the 

 inhabitants of whole provinces, would have 

 had fufficient reafon to deteft me as the 

 caufe of fo great a calamity. I afterwards 

 fent fome of them, though well fecured, to 

 count 'Tejiny and to Dr. Linnaus, together 

 with an account of their deftrudive quali- 

 ties. Dr. Linnceus has already inferted a 

 defcription of them in an Academical Dif- 

 fertation, which has been drawn up under 

 his prefidency, and treats of the damages 

 made by infeds.f He there calls this in- 

 fed the Bruchus of North-America. % It 



was 



•Though Mt. Kalm has fo carefully avoided peopling 

 Europe with this infeft, yet Dr. Linnaus affures us in his 

 Syjlema Nafura, that the fouthern countries of Europe are al- 

 ready infefted with it ; Scopoli mentions it among his In/eSia 

 Carniolica p. 63. and Geoffroy among his Parijian In/eas, 

 V9I. I. p. 267. t. 4. f. 9. has given a fine figure of it. F. 



t DifF. de Noxa Infeftorum, Amcen. Acad. Vol. 3. p. 

 347. ^. 



X In his Syftema Naturae, he calls it Bruchus Piji, or the 

 Peafe Beetle ; and fays that the Gracula ^i/cula, or Purple 

 daw of Catejby, is the greateft deftroyer of them, and though 



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