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II L The ExtraSi of another Letter to the [am 
Furpofe. 
Oxford, Feb. 20. 169^ 
Honoured S I Ry 
I Here fend you a Note out of a MS. Entituled, The 
Hiflory of Pemlroke-Jhire. 'Twas written about 
the Year 1603. by ont ^t, George Owen ^ a Gentleman 
of that Country, who feems to have been a Perfon of 
confiderable Accuracy and Veracity. 
Lih. L Cap. %6, ' About the beginning of JuftCy in the 
* Year 1601. a piece of Ground to the quantity of icq 
* Englifh Acres, was covered fuddenly ( as if the ftme 
* had fallen in a fliower out of the Air) with a kind of 
* Caterpillars or green Worms, having many Legs, and 
* tare without Hair. They were found in fuch abun- 
* dance, that a Man treading on the ground, fhould 
* tread upon 20 or 30 of them and in this ftrt they 
* continued for the fpace of three Weeks or more, no 
* Man knowing bow they came, nor any of the like 
* fore were ever feen in the Country before, nor fince ; 
^and being opened, there was nothing found within 
* them but Grafs. The place was on a Hill in the Pa- 
* dflh of Maen clocheg above Hynnon Dhewi. They were 
* found as it were with one accord to go one way, viz. 
* up the Hill, and went over the Hill a quarter of a 
' Mile and more. As they went they devoured and 
*confumedthe Grafs, that the Ground appeared bare 
* and red like Fallow. And after they had continued^ 
* there three Weeks, there rcforted thither an infinite 
* number of Sea- Mews and Crows, as i[ all of many 
' Countries had been fummon'd thither, who in few days 
* confmned them all. Alfo Swine fed upon thefe Worms 
* eagerly, and waxed very fat, (^c. 
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