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your Lordftiip of them, their Marches^ and the Defiru- 
{lion they have brought on the Country is only what I 
have gathered by lending out for Intelligence^ and depen- 
ding on the Reports of others ; for what I am able to fay 
of my own Knowledge is but little, and what lobferved 
of this fort of Fly in another Country, and not in 
this. 
Therefore you muft not expedl their Hi/lory^ or an 
€SaH Narrative^ but only fuch loofe Particulars, as I 
could pick up by difcourfing fome Gentlemen that live 
in thofe Parts where they fwarm, little addifted, you 
may Vi^ell fuppofe, to make or communicate Ohjervati- 
ens of this kind : However, I fliall not trouble your 
Lordfhip with bare Hearfays ; the following Account is 
what I took up upon fure Grounds, and what was gene- 
rally confirm'd to me, by the Relations of more than 
one and I muft here own my felf efpecially obliged, 
for a great part of my Information, to a Letter, your 
Lordlhip did me the Favour to procure, from one of 
your Acquaintance on this Subjed. 
The firft time great Numbers of thefe Infers were 
token Notice of in this Kingdom, I find was in the Year 
1688. They appeared on the South-Weft Coaft of the 
County of Gal/way^ brought thither by a SouthWeJl 
Wind, one of the common, I might almoft fay Trade^ 
Winds^ of this Country, it blows fo much more from 
this Quarter in Ireland, than all the reft of the Compafs. 
From hence they made their way into the more In- 
land Parts towards Heddford^ a Place belonging to 
Sir George St, George^ Baronet^ about Twelve Miles l^orth 
from the Town of Gallway ; here and in the adjacent 
Country, Mukitudes of them fbewed themfelves among 
the Trees and Hedges in the Day time, hanging by the 
Boughs Thoufands together in Clufters, flicking to the 
Back one of another, as is the manner of Bees when 
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