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Extracts of two Letters^ vpritten by Francis Willoughby 
Efquireytothe Publijher^ from Aftrop, Augnji i^th and 
fromM\d\tXQt\, Sept, id, 1670 Contawinghk Obferva- 
lions on the InfeBs andCarlrages, defcribed in the pre- 
cedent Accompt, 
I. T had the good luck to find a great many ofyour Car- 
|[ trages in a rotten Willow 5 and, by the fhapeofthe 
Maggot, was moft confident, they would produce Infefts 
oftheBee-trrbe. And this I fhould moft certainly have 
foretold you, had I ever received thofe you (ent me by Mr. 
Le Hunt : But having only that one^ you fent me before, I 
was (b fond and choice of it, that I durft not open it* I 
think now, 1 have found out the wholemyftery^ and if 
you pleafe to fend me Dr. Kings account, and one of your 
Bees, I may perhaps add fomethingj and fhall be glad to be 
inftrufted in any thing, that hath efcaped me* I defire one 
of the Bees, becaufeallmine being of a late Hatch, and 
poneofthemyet turned into Ny^/f A// (which is the word 
of Art for the ^«re/r J of a Bee J I fear, I (hall not fee their 
Met an/orphojf th\s year. In a Garden, near a Willow, 
I found , where they got their leaves for their Cartrages 5 
which are not Willow but Rofc-leaves, I will now proceed 
no further. 
At my coming home I found the long expedi^d Car- 
tragesj, and fome of tire Bees hatched 3 fo that now we 
want nothing to compleat their Hiftory. I will trouble you 
only with thofe particulars , that I find not mentioned in 
Dn Kin^s paper, to whom we owe the knowledge of their 
produdions, and whofe obfervations concerning them our. 
own experience hath fmce confirmed* Mr, Snelly an Inge* 
mous Gentleman, brought of them to the Wells at Aftrop, 
who direfting me to the place where he got them, I there 
fqund great plenty in th^, Trunk of a dead Willow. 
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