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about an inch long; they immediately begin to feed 

 on the sappy part of the tree, and do not leave off 

 eating until the whole of it is destroyed. 



It is believed that no attempt has as yet been made? 

 to remedy the evil, which if it continue, threatens 

 to destroy the whole of the pine trees in the country.^ 

 In one place in a tract of two thousand acres of pine 

 land on the Sample river, near Georgetown, at least/ 

 ninety trees in every hundred have been destroyed 

 by this pernicious insect, and the adjoining lands, 

 and many tracts near Lenud*s ferry on the Santee^ 

 and on Black rivei% ar^ In the same situation* 



