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destroy the Cock -chafers, at the rate of two Hards a 

 hundred. In a few days fourteen thousand were 

 brought to him. Thus, for the moderate sum of 

 about seveu shillings and eight-pence sterling, he de- 

 stroyed, according to his calculation, near a million 

 and a half of the grubs ; which, had they been al- 

 lowed to be hatched, might, in the course of four 

 years, have done damage to the amount of many 

 thousand pounds. — Bingley. 



