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tance above Bound Brook and down the river toward Perth Amboy, 
but far from equally. They would occur in great numbers in certain 
patches of woods, skip others completely, and reappear a mile or more 
farther along in immense numbers, leaving then another blank patch 
of greater or less extent. The western and southwestern portion of 
Middlesex and all of Mercer County were free from the insects. A 
small region in the northern part of Monmouth County was invaded, 
and a very few points in Ocean County reported the presence of the 
insect. In fact, it was only along the course of Toms River and 
its upper branches that I had any reports from Ocean County at all. 
In Burlington County they were reported from a single point only, 
and that near the center of the county. In Camden County they 
appeared along the line of the Atlantic City roads about fifteen or 
more miles from Camden, and extended for a short distance on each 
side of the railroad to Haminonton. There a considerable patch of 
country was skipped and then they reappeared, not again becoming 
abundant, however, until the Egg Harbor City region was reached. 
From Egg Harbor City a streak extended southward and a small spur 
also north of that point, and Atlantic County was crossed to the 
Tuckahoe River. Along the Tuckahoe River through the central 
portion of its course they were extremely abundant, and from this 
river they extended southward for some distance into Cape May 
County, becoming perhaps most numerous near Woodbine. where there 
is a large settlement of Hebrews. This settlement suffered perhaps 
most of any other in the State from the injuries caused by the 
insects in ovipositing. They had set out young shade trees, 
as well as orchard trees, in very great abundance. Soft maples, three 
and four years old, lined out the streets and all the roads, while to 
every allotment of land there were a certain number of fruit trees 
of all descriptions. This seems to have been just exactly what 
these insects were looking for, and they simply wrought havoc with 
everything, because they oviposited not only in all the branches, 
but in the trunks clear down to the base and on all sides of the 
tree trunks, so that there was in some cases scarcely a clear space 
of an inch square to be found anywhere on the tree. I have in my 
laboratory now several trees in which there must be several hundred 
egg slits made by the Cicadas. This is the only portion of the State 
in which a real permanent injury was caused by the insects; because 
here many young trees were killed and others were set back so far that 
they were rendered practically useless for some time to come. Cum- 
berland County reported the insects from several points along the 
Maurice River, extending from Frauklinville almost to Delaware Bay, 
and at Franklinville entering Gloucester County for some little dis- 
tance. At this point also there was the only extension into Salem 
County that was reported, and at Bridgeton, on the Cohansey ('reek, 
there was a small area of a few miles in extent in which the insects 
