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ihaped ', and the feet were faftened to the 

 foremoft articulations of the body : when 

 ttie infedl creeps, its hindmofl articulations 

 are dragged on the ground, and help its 

 motion. The extremity of the tail con- 

 tain a matter which (hines in the dark, 

 with a green light : the infed: could draw 

 it in, fo that it was not vifible. It had 

 rained confiderably all day, yet they crept 

 in great numbers among the buflies, fo that 

 the ground feemed as it were fown with 

 itars. I fhall in the fequel have occafion 

 to mention another kind of infers or flies 

 which fhine in the dark, when flying in 

 the air. 



November the 24th. Holly, or Ilex 

 Aquifoiiumt grows in wet places, fcattered 

 in the forefl:, and belongs to the rare trees ; 

 its leaves are green both in fummer and in 

 winter. The Swedes dry its leaves, bruife 

 them in a mortar, boil them in fmall beer, 

 and take them againfl: the pleurify. 



Red is dyed with brafil wood, and like- 

 wife with a kind of mofs, which grows on 

 the trees here : blue is dyed with Indigo^ but 

 to get a black colour, the leaves of the 

 common field forrel (Rumex Acetofella) are 

 boiled with the ftuflf to be dyed, which is 

 then dried, and boiled again with log-wood 

 and copperas : the black colour thus produ- 

 ced. 



