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has been pefter'd in the fame manner with Swarms of 
this Vermin. But thefe meetiogj by good Fortune, with 
a contrary Wind before they could reach Land, their 
Progrefs was (topr, and tired with their Voyage, they 
were all driven into the Sea, which by the Motion of its 
Waves and Tide, call their floating Bodies in Heaps up- 
on the Shore. 
This was a mod iucky Accident, for had this Second 
Supply met with as favourable a Gale, and the like Re- 
ception with their Predeceffors, 'twould have been of 
vaft ill Confequence to us ; for how exceedingly muft 
they have irjCreafed the Numbers of thefe we have here 
already, which alone are fufficient, yearly to trouble 
and damnify the Country to a great Degree. 
Yet fome Years are obftrved not to be near fo much 
infefted with them, as others, eiti'iercn the Account, as 
I imagine, of the Seafon proving more prejudicial to 
them and their Spawn; or that- they . removing their 
Quarters, leave one part of the Country more free, to 
fettle in an5cher for they feldom keep above a Year 
, together in a Place, and they compute their ufual Stages 
or March to be about Six Miles in a Year. Hitherto 
they have directed their Progrefs from the Place where 
they firft made their Invafion, Wefierly^ follov*^ing the 
Cour(e of that Wind which blows moft commonly in 
this Country. 
This laft Year, 1697. they have reached as far as the 
ShanoHi and fome of the fcatter'd loofe Parties croft the 
River, and got into the Province of Leinfier, but were 
met there by a ftronger Army of Jackdaws, that did 
much Execution among them, killing and devouring 
great Numbers. Their main Body ft ill keeps in Con* 
nought, and took up their laft Quarters at a well im. 
proy'd Engliih Plantation, not far from the River Sha^ 
mn^ called EarfcouH^ where they found plenty of Pro. 
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