44^ THE COCHINEAL. 



ble, however, that the art of tranfporting the cochineal, 

 like the filk worms, into whatever country the opuntia 

 may grow, will foon be difcovered, and the monopoly df 

 that drug be no longer engrolTcd by the Sj^aniards *» 



* Reaumur Tom. IV- p. icj, 



