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colour, confifting of twenty articula- 

 tions, correfponding with each pair of> 

 its legs. It moves with equal velocity 

 either backward or forward, and feema 

 to have an head at each end, with a pair 

 of forked hairy feelers; but the heap!, 

 properly fo called, is .guarded, by a p^ir 

 of ftrong fharp forceps. Its. bite is ve- 

 nomous, and extremely painful, but not 

 fatal. Thefe, as well as the Scorpions,, 

 are found not only in the fields, but in 

 the thatch of houfes, among books, 

 boxes, and furniture. 



The Chigger, or ^hique, as it 

 is termed by the French, is a fm^tll 

 dulky infedt refembling a Flea, but 

 fomewhat fmaller, and happily it is in- 

 capable of leaping, or the Torrid Zone; 

 would be uninhabitable. This animal 

 gently infinuates itfeif into the Ikin of 

 the toes and feet, exciting a moderate 

 itching and rednefs : this, to a perion* 



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