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licate and tenderer than the reft, loft their Sap as well as 
Leaves, and quite withered away, fo as they never re- 
covered it again, particularly feveral Trees in the curi- 
ous Plantation of one Mr. Martin, 
Nay their Multitudes fpread fo exceedingly, that 
they difturbed Men even within their Dwellings; for 
out of the Gardens they got into the Houfes where 
Numbers of them crawling about, were very irkfom, 
and they would often drop on che Meat as it was dref- 
fing in the Kitchin, and frequently fall from the Ceiling 
of the Rooms into the Diflies as they flood on the Table 
while they eat, fo extreamly Offenfive and Loathfom 
were they, as well as Prejudicial and Deftrudive. 
Nor did the Mifchievous Effc(9:s of this pernicious 
Vermin flop here, their numerous creeping »9/)^«?», which 
they had lodg'd under ground next the upper 6od of 
the Earth, did more harm in that clofe Retirement, 
than all the Flying Swarms of their Parents bad done 
abroad ; for this young deftrudive Brood, did not 
with-bold from what was much more NccefTary to have 
been fpared, and what their Sires had left untouched : 
Thefe lying under Ground, fell a devouring the Roots 
of the Qorn and Grafs, and eating them up, ruined both 
the fupport of Man and Beaft for thefe lofing their 
Roots, foon withered and came to nought, to the vaft 
Damage of the Country. 
This Spawn, when firft it gave Sign of Life, appeared 
like a large Maggoty and by taking Food and increafing 
every Day, became a bigger Worm, till at length it 
grew as big as a great v. hite Catterpiller ; from whence, 
according to the ufual Transformation Natural to thefe 
fmaller Animals, came forth this our Flying Infed,- but 
how or at what- certain Periods of Time, thefe Meta* 
morphofes and Changes were wrought, I could not meet 
with any one abk to inform mc, 
This 
