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were now arriving daily from Europe.” Lord Howe’s strength 
was hereby augmented to twenty-four thousand men, about half 
of whom (as is probable from the statement, page 416,) were 
newly arrived “Hessians and Waldeckers.”” The most of these 
were from Hesse Cassel, a district but about a hundred miles dis- 
tant from Saxe-Coburg and Saxe-Altenburg, where, as we have 
already seen, the same insect did much damage to the wheat crops 
in 1833. And again, under the date of August 25, (p. 437,) it 
is stated, that “on this day, General De Heister landed with two 
brigades of Hessians. The next day he took post at Flatbush,” 
on Long Island, about six miles distant from the main encamp- 
ment on Staten Island. 
In juxtaposition with this account, let us now place the state- 
ment of one, who, Sir John Temple, the British Consul General 
at New York tells us, “had been more curious with respect to this 
insect, than any other person with whom he was acquainted.” 
Says Col. Morgan, (Encyc. Britan.) “the Hessian fly was first in- 
troduced into America, by means of some straw made use of in 
package, or otherwise, landed on Long Island, at an early period 
of the late war; and its first appearance was in the neighborhood 
of Sir William Howe’s dekarkation, and at Flatbush.” So many 
circumstances concur to evince the truth of the account here given 
by Col. Morgan, to its very letter, that we think no one will here- 
after hesitate to give it full evidence. 
We have searched in vain for the date of the embarkation of 
the Hessian troops, or the number of days occupied by them in 
crossing the ocean. It is possible they may all have left Europe 
anterior to the harvest. But in Germany, as in this country, as 
is shown by M. Kollar’s statement, the infested straw becomes 
broken and tangled, and turns yellow, early in June. Had a com- 
pany of soldiers needed straw for package, no objections would 
have been made to their going into a field of this kind, and with 
a scythe, gathering what they required, weeks before the usual 
time of harvest. 
We have nowhere met with but one statement, which goes 
directly to prove that this insect is indigenous to this country, or 
existed here anterior to the arrival of the Hessian troops. The 
