__|-when the ground has been extreamly moiftned, and. foftned with the 
| will not pafs through the hole, orarch, through which they mean 
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| Flyes we have of fo many: kinds , (¢ from two, inches long with the 
great horns, which we keep in boxes, and aref{hewed by John Tre- 
defcan amongft his raritiés) to the leaft Atome, asit would be a 
weary work to fet them downs as alfo the fiudden produ&ion of 
them, ftom Nothing to Maggets, ftom Maggets toFlyes; and there 
is not Only a race of all thefe. kinds, that go ina_ generation, but 
_| upon few occafions, new kinds; as, after a great downfall of rain , 
| water, Thave walk’d out upon a dry walk (which I. made. my felf) 
_ | in an evening, and there came about me anarmy offuch flyes, as I had 
~{ never feen before, nor afters and they rofe, as I conceived, out of the 
_{earth: They were as big bodied as Bees , but far larger wings, harm 
they did usnone, but only lighted ‘on us 3 their colour between ath- 
colour and purple. © | 
throw himonthe ground, and mark what they will do with him 5 
‘his body is bigger thana hundred-of them , and, yet they will find 
jthe means to take hold’ofhim, and lifthim up 5 and having him a- 
‘}bove ground , away they carry him, and fome go by as ready 
jaffiftants, if any be weary 3 and fome are the Officers that lead and 
}fhew the way to the hole intowhich he muft pafs5 and if the Van- 
‘leurtiers perceive , that the body of the Cockroach. lies cro{s, and 
{to carry him, order is given, and the body turned endwile ,.and 
‘| this done a foot before they cometo the hole, and that without any 
_ |itop or ftay 5 and this is obfervable, that they never pull contrary 
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| Thofe that are curious , and will prevent their coming on their 
| Tables, Cupbords, or Beds, have little hollowsoftimber, filfd with 
water, for the feet of thefe to ftand in; but all this vvill not ferve 
{their turns forthey will fome ofthem, go up to the feiling, and let 
jthemftlyes fall upon the teafters of the Beds, Cupbords, and 
To prevent them from coming on our fhelves where our meat | 
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